Rob wrote:
> Don't get me wrong.  I love Ruby.  It's just that as a mediocre 
> programmer, I found it very difficult to learn because I spent too much 
> time looking for certain methods in the Ruby book.  Sometimes it is 
> easier for beginners to move forward when they don't have 10 different 
> options for how to do something.

Perfectly said.

Wittgenstein's Ladder.  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WittgensteinsLadder

Training wheels, training wheels, training wheels.

Everybody needs 'em when starting out in a new area. I need 'em. Big 
time. Especially as I start watching the SiCP LISP videos. And I have 
some past experience hacking around with Python. Though with my 
background it looked more like object-oriented VBScript.

God help me.

Just my $.02.

-dave