On Jun 14, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Eric Hegwer wrote:

> I though it be cool to hear what your first experience with Ruby was.
> Was it a job, or just a fun (cough, cough)  side project that you
> decided to take on?
>
> For me, Ruby is my entrance to the world of programming.  My first and
> only computer class was as a HS sophomore in 1986.
>
> And as for my first project, I'm fighting my way through a fourm
> tutorial written for 1.6 (I'm riding 2.02).
> --  
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

the first thing that would qualify as a project was:

  http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/btpgsql/btpgsql-0.2.4/doc/

i can't imagine having done it in perl ;-)

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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