> >> This would make an interesting thread in itself - what people's
> >> backgrounds were before Ruby, and what sort of spread of 
> work people are
> >> doing currently.

Before Ruby, I did mainly Perl. And before that, Tcl and C++.
Now doing nearly Ruby exclusively, with a wee bit of Java 
occasionally.

Ronald
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