From: gavin@... (Gavin Scott)
Date: 2000-12-13T05:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7105] Re: Ruby in the US

Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> But I'm still a bit puzzled about the *point* of Ruby.  It's either
> Smalltalk without the IDE, or Perl without the CPAN and
> programmer/install base and wide ports, or Python without the annoying
> "it'll be indented THIS WAY or Guido will come and get you" feature.

> What do you want to accomplish with Ruby?

Personally, I intend to use it to write computer programs.

G.