On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:35:28 +0900, Daniel Carrera
<dcarrera / math.umd.edu> wrote:

>
>I like the idea of loops that sound like English.  I want to make them as
>simple as possible.  I am currently thinking of this:
>
>1) First introduce :
>3.times do
>   ...
>end
>
>This is the simplest loops possible, and the most like English.
>

And the construct that got me started on Ruby. After 20 years of
programming in a dozen languages, when I read that "3.times do..." is
a loop in Ruby I said "I gotta get me some of that!"