From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-04-26T20:22:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing myself - Sascha Ebach

Sascha Ebach <se@hexatex.de> wrote:
> I have been quietly reading the list for the last two months now and
> before I participate I would like to introduce myself and talk a little
> bit about what I plan to do in Ruby. 

Welcome to Ruby.. I like when people introduce themselves.
Your introduction is OK :-)


> Before that I would like to say how
> impressed I am with the nice tone of this list. This list must be the
> most civilized list I have read (and I read quite a few) and all the ppl
> are very nice. Almost every day there is something great to learn. Let's
> hope it stays that way. I really would have liked to participate early,
> but as always there is so much work that I simply didn't have any time
> for that in the past.

Great.. however watch out not getting addicted :-)


[snip]
> I am a great fan of small and simple solutions. Whenever a script (file)
> gets more than 100 lines long I get pretty nervous. Usually I try to
> refactor it until it is under 100 lines (I know that this is not always
> possible :). So far I haven't encountered any language which supports this
> as good as Ruby. For this I thank the creator.
[snip] 

If you are worry about that bigger programs gets more fragile, then you should
try the test-first paradigm.

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Simon Strandgaard