Damien Joly wrote:

> I have, however, relatively little time to
> try out many languages (my day job interferes), and so
> thought I might save time by describing to the
> "experts" exactly what I want to do, and whether they
> think Ruby is going to accomplish what I want.


I'm no expert, but I suspect that soon you'll describe your objects and 
tasks to Ruby, in a similiar way you did in your email, and it will just 
work.
It might even happen that it works so nicely, it will make you smile :)

Nice intro:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/index.html

On
http://www.pinkjuice.com/ruby/#links
I collected some links that were helpful for me when I
started.

Tobi


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