Why do people want to program in Ruby anyhow?
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...because I don’t know any other language except smatterings of applesoft basic, pascal, perl, shell scripting collected as oddments to get things done, mainly text processing. Ruby has a nice community, was from perl, object oriented (whatever that means) and billed as a easy to learn language that has readable code for debugging. I couldn’t care less about the RoR hype; I just wanted to find a good basic foundational language that I can start with and not worry about indenting. Hopefully I made a good choice as curious end-user. Thanks for you book and supporting Ruby. I just downloaded it.