Tim Rowe wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:52:19 +0900, Jim Weirich <jweirich / one.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >What in Ruby do you find yourself struggling with?
> 
> I wish I could pin it down.  Memorability, I think.  I read how to do
> something, and the next day when I want to do it I find I need to look
> it up again.

In Java, I have to check the J2SE Javadoc almost constantly, and I've
been doing Java for six years.  Any language with a large and diverse
library (and, in Ruby's case, several syntactic forms) is harder to keep
in your head than simpler tools like C or awk.

Maybe it's a matter of working with Ruby a lot, so that common idioms
burn into your memory (ouch).  I've also found that my first guesses on
how do something are usually pretty close ... and, in the rest of the
cases, that 'ri' is more convenient than clicking through hyperlinks
(thank you Dave Thomas).

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