----- Original Message -----
From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker / jump.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. The Others


> (Posted to comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk ML.)
>
> > Greg McCarroll <gem / news.cis.dfn.de> wrote in message
> > > Ok, i'm probably not that welcome here being an out and out Perl
> > > devotee, however in the spirit of usenet i'll wade in with my comments
> > > anyway.
>
> [[Greg, this is Matz's reply. He is the inventor of Ruby.]]
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven't get comp.lang.ruby yet.
> I just sent a mail to my news admin to ask group creation.
> Could you somebody forward this mail to the newsgroup?
>
> [[Done.]]
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:02784] Re: Ruby vs. The Others"
>     on 00/05/12, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker / jump.net> writes:
>
> |> What is the motivation for Ruby? why another scripting language?
> |
> |I'll see if someone on the ruby-talk ML would like to respond to this.
>
> Because of TMTOWTDI.  There may be more than one way to express my
> desire to the computers, preferably better one than P languages.
> And I believe I made it.
>
> The purpose of Ruby is to maximize programming pleasure.
> Programming in Ruby is extremely fun, for me at least.
> I think many would agree with me.
>
> matz.
>
>
>