From: Joey Gibson <joey@...>
Date: 2003-09-27T05:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Focusing more on Ruby ... Windows ver?

On 9/26/2003 3:40 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:

> Now that you're getting back into Ruby, you should <plug>come to
> the conference in Austin in November</plug>, which is only about
> 48 days off now.
>

I've registered and made my hotel reservations already. Now if airfare 
would come down about another $50 I could fly from Atlanta to Austin 
instead of driving...

> OT: How is C#? Should I learn it? I'm starting to see jobs
> related to it...


I actually rather like C#, although I prefer Ruby above all else. I work 
in Java all day (and have been doing so since 1996) and it has some 
things that Java doesn't that make things easier. Specifically the fact 
that primitives are essentially first class (not really, but from the 
developer's perspective they are) and you can shove them into 
collections instead of having to wrap them yourself, send literal 
numbers messages, that kind of thing. C# also has a nice delegation 
model (Dave thinks so as well) which is one of the reasons for the 
MS/Sun split over Java. Of course I'd rather write Ruby code (or 
Smalltalk or Lisp) to be perfectly honest... :-)

Joey

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