From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2004-01-15T05:56:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS mentioned on /.

Ralph Mason wrote:
> Well, having written a few embedded operating systems, and plenty of 
> assembler (& C & C++ & Java etc etc) in my time.  I use ruby exactly 
> because it is a very high level language.  Perhaps it takes a low lever 
> programmer to really appreciate it.  I doubt I am alone in the ruby 
> community.

Same here.  I was writing Assembler languages back when they and FORTRAN 
were the only languages that really mattered.  I've programmed in 
FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, PL/I, Pascal, several different BASICs, C, C++, 
Ada, REXX, RPG, and PERL, and I've dabbled some in LISP and half a dozen 
other languages.  I've only been working with Ruby for a couple of 
weeks, and I can already see that, where raw CPU speed isn't a problem, 
I'm going to be using Ruby a lot.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"