On Aug 12, 6:41 ¨Βν¬ ΆΒεξ ΑυςεμΆ Όβεξ®αυ®®®ΐηναιμ®γονχςοτεΊ > hi > After working with some ruby projects and playing with existing > sources I decided to finally get my hands dirty. It's an interesting > experiences with similarities of learning a human language where your > comprehension skills are far more better than your speaking skills. > Basically the problem I have that I've written too much excellent ruby > code, without a deeper knowldedge of what the code really do, but with > a rather feeling 'that looks terse' vs. 'that looks clunky'. > Now that I actually begin to write code of my own, I find myself in a > similar position as somebody after a brainsurgery trying to learn how > to speak. Its grinding and for every line I write I think for myself > 'oh god that's probably wrong'. Every line you write will have to be rewritten 10 times. You can usually tell poor code b/c it looks as if it has only been rewritten 5 times ;) T.