James Britt wrote: > Lou Vanek wrote: > >> C has 'Hello world!' >> Ruby has the proverbial 'ToDo' list, >> http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/7 > > > Except the typical C "Hello, world" example doesn't start with, "First, > download and install a set of libraries that does all the interesting > bits." Good point. You get to show what a rich set of libraries Ruby has and how easy libraries can be installed with just one command. Thanks for pointing that out. -lv [snip]