Ruby's awesome (was "Re: [Leaplist] Linux not on the list of losers! Not surprised.")

[Bill Anderson]

On Sunday 21 January 2007 19:16, Damien McKenna wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > I'd add Ruby to the list, personally.
>
> Ruby's awesome.  What's not to like?

Lack of proper internationalization? It excels at making simple things 
simpler, I'll give it that. Documentation is also rather lacking, though ti 
seems to improving a bit. It is also gunning for the ultimate tradeoff 
between development time and run time. Translation: slowness. I d it's syntax 
some of the most atrocious stuff, though not *quite* as bad as Perl. ;) 
Granted, I dont do web pages as a main task, but since Ruby is quite often 
billed as the end-all-be-all, that's a factor.