From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T23:48:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

gt wrote:
[snip]
> 
> This is just what my experience has been.
> I know its not choke full of technical reasons why you should choose
> one over the other.
> On the surface it seems as if Ruby doesnt offer anything extraordinary
> enough to warrant a switch from Python for most users.
> Its one of those things that you have to experience I think, for
> it to hit you.
> I would urge you to give it a whirl.
> Sometimes it comes down to the intangibles in life.

This is what I would call the "gestalt" of ruby!

  From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

  gestalt : a structure, configuration, or pattern 
            of physical, biological, or psychological 
            phenomena so integrated as to constitute a 
            functional unit with properties not derivable 
            by summation of its parts.

Curt