From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T17:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: learning the "Ruby way"


"Mills Thomas (app1tam)" <app1tam@ups.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:C5119C9CC940AB44BB5FDEE9D5749D0D08243A72@njrarsvr038d.us.ups.com...
> Oh, certainly.  I would do it at work, but it is verboten.

You have a rule that explicitely bans Ruby?  Wow!  ;-)

So even if Ruby would make your life easier, you couldn't use it?  Darn...

>  My only
> work-related attachment to Ruby is making sure I know it (I'm expected
to
> "know" stuff, even if I don't do it).

Sounds like a kind of technology watch job.

Cheers

    robert

>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Fowler [mailto:chad@chadfowler.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: learning the "Ruby way"
>
>
> 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?
>
> Chad
>
>