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Dear Robert,

These points are fantastic.

This is a great contrast to many other languages. I have added these points in, the first under comprehension, and the second under evaluation.

Again, I really appreciate these ideas.

Kind regards,
Samuel

On 15/03/2010, at 10:13 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> I think the first item in the list is a very important one!  I am
> missing these items in your list:
> 
> - Ruby is a fully object oriented language - there are no hybrid
> constructs like Java's plain old datatypes, instead everything is an
> object.
> 
> - Ruby can be used consistently with a variety of programming
> paradigms: procedural, object oriented class based, object oriented
> prototype based, functional etc.  So you need only one language to
> cover several areas and you can even implement the same task in
> different paradigms in the same program to make comparison of
> paradigms simple.
> 
> see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> robert


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