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Mayuresh Kathe

8/6/2008 2:37:00 PM

Hello all,

I've just joined the Ruby community by subscribing to this mailing list.
This is a consequence of just getting exposed to the improved Ruby language.

Though I'd first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a
tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded
me from doing so as the language wasn't matured enough.
I'm revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on Rails.

I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and
Java for the past 12 years.
I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, "All Objects, All
the Time" :-)
Stuff like 5.times {puts "Hello World"} is fun ;-)

Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the long run.

Best Regards,

~Mayuresh
3 Answers

Robert Klemme

8/6/2008 2:55:00 PM

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2008/8/6 Mayuresh Kathe <kathe.mayuresh@gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just joined the Ruby community by subscribing to this mailing list.
> This is a consequence of just getting exposed to the improved Ruby language.
>
> Though I'd first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a
> tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded
> me from doing so as the language wasn't matured enough.
> I'm revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on Rails.
>
> I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and
> Java for the past 12 years.
> I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, "All Objects, All
> the Time" :-)
> Stuff like 5.times {puts "Hello World"} is fun ;-)
>
> Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the long run.

Welcome aboard! And I hope you do have a lot of fun using Ruby. :-)

Cheers

robert

--
use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end

Phill Davies

8/7/2008 2:59:00 AM

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Absolutely, welcome aboard! Gotta love emails like that.

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2008/8/6 Mayuresh Kathe <kathe.mayuresh@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've just joined the Ruby community by subscribing to this mailing list.
>> This is a consequence of just getting exposed to the improved Ruby language.
>>
>> Though I'd first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a
>> tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded
>> me from doing so as the language wasn't matured enough.
>> I'm revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on Rails.
>>
>> I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and
>> Java for the past 12 years.
>> I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, "All Objects, All
>> the Time" :-)
>> Stuff like 5.times {puts "Hello World"} is fun ;-)
>>
>> Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the long run.
>>
>
> Welcome aboard! And I hope you do have a lot of fun using Ruby. :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> robert
>
>


Joshua Ballanco

8/7/2008 5:25:00 AM

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Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> Though I'd first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a
> tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded
> me from doing so as the language wasn't matured enough.
> I'm revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on
> Rails.

On that note, I've found it rather enlightening to read through Alan
Kay's "Early History of SmallTalk"
(http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_Abs...)
and then compare that to _why's "The Little Coder's Predicament"
(http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredic...).
There's much to learn and do in the Ruby world!

-Josh
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