Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02677] new to ruby"
    on 00/05/09, tom carlile <mugoi / mail.utexas.edu> writes:

|hello.  i am new to ruby and just joined the list.  i come from 
|a perl background and was hoping i could pick ruby up rather
|quickly.  i heard that ruby is very popular in japan.  i plan on
|moving to japan for a year or two after i graduate and was
|wondering if you guys thought it would be wise to learn ruby
|in order to be able to get a fresh new job.  is it really _that_
|popular?  

Let's face it.  Not yet.  Perl is close to _that_ popularity.
The day will come in few year, I think.

|if someone in japan wouldn't mind would you post some
|urls for some good job databases in japan? i have been unable
|to find any and would like to do some research before jumping
|in.  

What kind of job do you want?  

 http://www.escapeartist.com/japan/japan5.htm

may be a good start.  If you can read Japanese, I can show
you Japanese ones.

I might plan to move to the States, if somebody pays me well
(for developing Ruby ;-).

							matz.