I was unintentionally offensive when I wrote:

Stephen White" <steve / deaf.org> wrote:

> > You need to grok Ruby on its own terms, rather than viewing it as a
> > cut down version of C++.

> I don't view it as anything of the sort. I am not dismissive of Ruby. I
can
> seperate my professional interest in Ruby (as a scripting language for
> non-programmers to use) from my personal interest in Ruby (as something
that
> may or may not offer some important new concepts).

I just re-read this, and realised that I implied something that I didn't
mean. I certainly *do not* mean to say that Ruby is not a real language, or
that if you use Ruby you are a non-programmer. Quite the opposite is true.
When I wrote those words I was thinking about the possible application of
Ruby in my context (that is, as a scripting language for a game, to be used
by artists, worldcrafters and game designers).

Christian.