[aklug] Re: Side note: Ruby coolness

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On 06/23/2010 01:36 PM, barsalou wrote:
> Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:
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>> While I'm e-mailing the list anyway, I want to take a moment to thank
>> whoever it was who originally introduced me to Ruby. (Mike, wasn't it?)
>> Ruby is an awesome language, and it has given me the most satisfying
>> experience of any language I've used so far. Of them all, it has been
>> the most fun, the cleanest, and the most productive.
>>
>> I bought "Programming Ruby 1.9" (the PDF version) for $25 dollars at
>> www.pragprog.com. It's around 1000 pages long, but the language is real
>> easy to follow, and I'm learning a lot about the more powerful features
>> of Ruby.
>>
>> - --
>
> Thanks for the plug for Ruby.
>
> The reasons listed above are some of the same reasons I like Ruby.
> However, it is now reasonable to don your flame retardant suit so as not to
> get burned by the folks that believe those "reasons" are not compelling
> enough.

Heh. Well, I could have went into a lot more detail about what I
specifically like, but my e-mail wasn't really meant to be an apologetic
for Ruby. More just letting you guys know I've been working with Ruby
and enjoying it. Was hoping it might steer the list away from all that
boring system admin stuff we normally talk about toward a really
interesting subject like programming. ;)

In my off-work hours I'm writing a cross platform computer game in Ruby.
I don't have enough done yet to advertise it, but I do make the source
available on my site so that it is publicly GPL'd.

I'm also am looking for a good excuse to try out this whole "Ruby on
Rails" thing. It is probably about time to give my church web site a
face-lift, so I should get an opportunity soon.

- --
Christopher Howard
http://linuxprogrammingforums.com
http://indicium.us
http://theologia.indicium.us

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Received on Wed Jun 23 14:32:41 2010