(In response to news:4202075B.2080206 / hypermetrics.com by Hal Fulton) > I think however that when he said "development must go quicker" he meant > that his own development must be quicker than he can manage in C++ (hence > the interest in Ruby). Seen like this the phrase makes of course sense. I stand corrected. kaspar hand manufactured code - www.tua.ch/ruby