From: Adam Williams <awilliams@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T13:37:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking of learning Ruby

> As far as the GUI functionality, that is really a property of the GUI library
> and not the language.  Java has blurred this distinction somewhat, but for
> other languages there are multiple GUI libraries available which have
> different characteristics.
> 
> Ruby will steer you towards better programming practice than many other
> languages.  Also, unless you learn Ruby or Smalltalk (of the widely
> distributed languages) you won't really know what OO is about.

[AIW] If you don't study under experienced OO developers, you will be less
likely to know good OOP. Also, Java now has an excellent GUI toolkit. Check out
www.eclipse.org. Make sure you search for SWT and JFace.