From: Matthew Berg <galt@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T04:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: learning the "Ruby way"

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 13:28, Chad Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Mark Wirdnam wrote:
> 
> # **Hobby-programmer alarm**
> # 
> 
> May excellent suggestions have been made, so I won't bore you with my 
> attempt.  But, I wanted to say, "Welcome Hobby Programmer!"
> 
> I'm paid to do IT work, but I have increasingly moved my programming 
> activities into the land of hobby-dom, where I tend to enjoy them more.  I 
> find Ruby to be an *excellent* language for hobbyists (as well as 
> enterprise users).
> 
> Are there other strict hobbyists on the list?

I'm an administrator rather than a programmer by trade, although as with
any admin job that also entails a fair amount of scripting, and my own
position also includes some C debugging and packaging.

On the other hand I learned Ruby scritly for hobby use, since at work
we're stuck pretty firmly with Perl and POSIX shell.  Now I'm spending
what hours I can spare working on Ruby-GNOME2 (mostly docs and bugfixes)
and a little media player which may actually be worth regular end users
looking at some day.  ;) 

-- 
Matthew Berg <galt@gothpoodle.com>