Ruby is a wonderful language (Score 1, Interesting)

I just gave a presentation in my Programming Languages class about Ruby. Coming from a backgroung in mostly emperitive languages, I've found that Ruby is very easy to understand and work with. Also I like Matz's "Principle of Least Surprise," which in my opinion makes it a lot eaiser to work in. The only severe problem that I ran into in my breif tour of the language was without strong typedefs or compling it down to machine code, it's going to have a harder time competeing with languages like Python.

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --Mark Twain