This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. ---- extPart_ST_08_21_20_Monday_August_12_2002_481 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Douthitt CUNA & Affiliates UNIX Systems Administrator ddouthitt / cuna.coop >>> raims / dot.com 8/11/02 12:25PM >>> > > Then (I have no problems switching to Ruby) > I asked myself: " why I have to do that " ? > > Could anyone answer for me? I can tell you my story... I find OO to be the best way of thinking, and still wish I had enough time to learn (and use) SmallTalk fully. I've always enjoyed learning new languages, and perk up when I hear of a new one. I'd been programming in Perl 4or a long time, and when Perl 5 came along and changed everything, and claimed "OO" (which I did not see) - I never did learn to program in Perl 5. rite mostly in ksh; back then I wrote in Perl 4 occasionally. Now, if I'm not in ksh I'm writing in Ruby. Ruby is cleaner, is truly object-oriented, and re-visiting old code isn't nearly as difficult as Perl or other programs might be. I find it to be more maintainable, and easier to write in. I definitely recommend it! ---- extPart_ST_08_21_20_Monday_August_12_2002_481 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4912.300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 8pt Microsoft Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David Douthitt<BR>CUNA & Affiliates<BR>UNIX Systems Administrator<BR><A href="mailto:ddouthitt / cuna.coop">ddouthitt / cuna.coop</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>>>> raims / dot.com 8/11/02 12:25PM >>><BR>></DIV> <DIV>> Then (I have no problems switching to Ruby)</DIV> <DIV>> I asked myself: " why I have to do that " ?<BR>><BR>> Could anyone answer for me?<BR></DIV> <DIV>I can tell you my story...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I find OO to be the best way of thinking, and still wish I had enough time to learn (and use) SmallTalk fully. I've always enjoyed learning new languages, and perk up when I hear of a new one. I'd been programmingn Perl 4 for a long time, and when Perl 5 came along and changed everything, and claimed "OO" (which I did not see) - I never did learn to program in Perl 5. I write mostly in ksh; back then I wrote in Perl 4 occasionally.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now, if I'm not in ksh I'm writing in Ruby. Ruby is cleaner, is truly object-oriented, and re-visiting old code isn't nearly as difficult as Perlr other programs might be. I find it to be more maintainable, and easier to write in.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I definitely recommend it!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ---- extPart_ST_08_21_20_Monday_August_12_2002_481--