[PLUG] Teaching My Son To Program

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Hayes <kyle at silverbeach.net> writes:

Kyle> As I said above, Ruby seems something like the slightly odd
Kyle> offspring of Perl and Smalltalk.  Everything is an object, but
Kyle> it has a fairly rich syntax.  It has objects, classes, methods,
Kyle> regex syntax, closures, yadda yadda yadda.  If anything, it's
Kyle> problem is that, like Perl, it is pretty rich.  It is also
Kyle> fairly young and doesn't have the cohesive and consistent
Kyle> libraries found in CPAN or Smalltalk. Personally, I like what I
Kyle> see a lot, but what I see is mostly potential at this point.

Yes, Smalltalk first, Ruby next, then Perl to get the real world stuff
done.  Python if you're in to bondage and indenting the One True Way.

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