These questions are from a Ruby Newbie that didn't want to post them
themselves. Any comments?

Have others learned Ruby as their first [programming] language?

Do you think others would be interested in a seperate mail-list for newbies?

How do I stop a crashed program under rubywin (besides 3 finger salute)?

On page 10 of PR [Programming Ruby] the %w shortcut is shown creating an
array with curly braces (a=%w{a d c f}) which works. The same construction
also works with square brackets [which] seems more consistant with arrays.
This is a bit confusing since it isn't mentioned in the text.