Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>Ruby is primarily designed for me.  And I am not a "real programmer".
>My first "high level" language was Pascal.  I don't program in FORTRAN
>nor in assember.  So naturally, there can be space for "Ruby twisted
>for *real programmers*".
>
>							matz.
>

Hey, thats really strange. You designed it for *me* as well!

And I have programmed FORTRAN and assembler and Lisp and Prolog and 
COBOL and ....