From: Tim Hunter <Tim.Hunter@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T03:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Book for People Who Aren't (Yet) Programmers

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:00:39 +0900, "Chris" <nemo@hellotree.com> wrote:

>One thing I did find, though, was the Ruby is the perfect language for
>learning to program!  

I agree. I think Ruby might be an IDEAL first language. The only
drawback would be if Ruby became categorized as a "beginner's"
language like BASIC.

Wait a minute. There's a second drawback. People who learn Ruby first
might start to expect other programming languages to be as expressive
and powerful :-)