From: Enric Lafont <enric@1smart.com>
Date: 2002-11-04T07:28:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

Vincent Foley wrote:

>When I started learning Ruby, some things didn't feel natural (strings
>as integer arrays for example), but I eventually learned to cope with
>these and also, not think too much of the features I would like to have
>(conses, tail-recursion optimization, etc.)  Language designers do their
>best to write a language that the actual community continues to like.
>Larry Wall listens to the Perl people and if their suggestions make
>sense, he probably adds them.  Same goes for Guido Van Rossum and
>Python.  And matz listens to the Ruby community (he's pretty active in
>this ML).
>
>Just give it time, eventually the large number of nice features in Ruby
>will make it easier for you to accept the little annoyances.
>  
>
This is one of the reasons for this thread.

>Oh, welcome in the Ruby world!
>  
>
Thank you, I'm becoming now very proficient, I'm really surprised of the 
compacness of the language and the incredible cuantity of lines I can 
write every day, the bad thing is that the exceptions of Ruby forces me 
to spend a lot of time debugging the programms, I'm sure that in the 
future things will be easier.

Enric