Tim Sutherland wrote: > http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20050911.html > > Ruby Weekly News 5th - 11th September 2005 > ------------------------------------------ > > Ruby Weekly News is a summary of the week's activity on the ruby-talk > mailing list / comp.lang.ruby newsgroup, brought to you this week by > Tim Sutherland and Christophe Grandsire. > Wow! Seeing my name associated to one of the websites I follow most is blowing me away ;) . For those wondering, I wrote the blurb about the "Why? Blocks" thread (because it taught me a lot too :) ). Wow! This really is great! Tim, when I tried to add my name to the contributors I received an error message saying that it was too late to modify the newsletter. I'm glad it went through nonetheless. Well, I might use the occasion to introduce myself, as I am new on the Ruby-talk list (I've been following it for months, partly through the Ruby Weekly News, but I only subscribed two days ago :) ). Those who hang out on the IRC channel #ruby-lang or the comments of Why's blog Redhanded may know me: I am the somewhat critical, sometimes opiniated, often long-winded and rarely a pain in the **** (hopefully ;) ) "Tsela". On #ruby-lang I used to be quite active a bit more than a year ago, but losing my job (partly due to my spending too much time on #ruby-lang) and finding a new one took most of my time and I've only returned a few times since. As for my connection to Ruby I discovered the language about two years ago and it stopped my search for the language most fitting me, since it is it! :) A breath of fresh air after trying to find my luck in Java, Perl and Python! So far I haven't coded much anything of value, and consider myself a perpetual newbie. I understand (somewhat) the concepts of Ruby, but have yet to apply them in programs of my own. This is due to both a lack of time and the fact that I am not educated as a programmer (I am officially a hydrodynamics engineer, and although my current job is as a programmer, it is rather far away from Rubyland and I stop it anyway in December for a new job more in my line of education :) ), which means that some of the concepts that I see discussed on this list fly sometimes far above my head (and there are still people who dare say dynamic languages cannot be used for sophisticated programming...). I do have some ideas, but it will take time for me to mature them in my head, and I won't be able to start before I settle in my job anyway... OK, I think you've noticed how long-winded I can be ;) . I'm going to stop now. At first I think I'll mostly lurk around and comment only when I really have something of value to add to a discussion, and when I can be on-topic (so not like I'm doing right now ;) . I hope you forgive me for the off-topicness here). I'll try and help with the Ruby Weekly News some more, it's quite fun to do :) . Anyway, I'm quite happy to be here, and I hope to be able to make myself useful someday to others here :) . -- Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.