Re: Ruby momentum?

James McCarthy wrote: 
Hell I don't care if anyone else uses Ruby, I like using it so much
that I would be happy to just keep using it until I found something
that I liked even better.

I signed up to the Ruby mailing lists 2 days ago and they are just
jumping, I really think Ruby (and RoR also) are going to make it big.

Even if they don't I'm happy, I like what I got.

ps. I started to learn programming in college with Java, after year
one I decided not to be a programmer it was so bad, then Ruby changed
my mind.

Good thing you weren't in school when C++ was the language de jour -- you might have needed therapy to recover! ;-)

Curt


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