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Any Ruby programmers?
I'm learning Ruby this week, so far it's pretty damn awesome! I was really nervous at first, since it is such a loose language. No semicolons, parenthesis are optional, same with brackets... it seems like there are ten ways to write the exact same statement. I checked out a few books on safari.oreilly.com and spent most of monday and tuesday reading. Wednesday I started coding.
On Monday I had never even heard of the language. By this morning at 2am I already had a fully working (Ruby on Rails) app, with many of the features that took me several days, if not weeks, to figure out in J2EE. I estimate I wrote 20 lines of code, total. The rest was generated from Ruby's scripts and is automatically inserted where it belongs. The only heavy lifting was in creating/managing sessions and in hooking up stylesheets. All of the CRUD and O/R mappings, handled automagically. I'm totally stunned. It seems like it shouldn't be this easy...
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I started reading about it about 2 years ago...quickly lost interest. Most of the work I do (have done) is too CPU-intensive to bother with things like Ruby, Perl, VB, etc.
Hell these days I spend more time in performance testing than writing code. 
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What is Ruby used for? What platforms does it run on?
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Legion - it runs on darn near anything...
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zOS?
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LOL!
 I'm sure you can compile it from CVS, legion.
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