# First mail

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 6, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166 "2008-08-06T16:39:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mayuresh_K)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166/1 "2008-08-06T16:39:46Z")

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Hello all,

I’ve just joined the Ruby community by subscribing to this mailing list.  
This is a consequence of just getting exposed to the improved Ruby  
language.

Though I’d first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a  
tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded  
me from doing so as the language wasn’t matured enough.  
I’m revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on  
Rails.

I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and  
Java for the past 12 years.  
I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, “All Objects, All  
the Time” 🙂  
Stuff like 5.times {puts “Hello World”} is fun 😉

Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the  
long run.

Best Regards,

~Mayuresh

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**Author:** ![Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mayuresh_K)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166/2 "2008-08-06T16:56:48Z")

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2008/8/6 Mayuresh K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and  
> Java for the past 12 years.  
> I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, “All Objects, All  
> the Time” 🙂  
> Stuff like 5.times {puts “Hello World”} is fun 😉
> 
> Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the long run.

Welcome aboard! And I hope you do have a lot of fun using Ruby. 🙂

Cheers

robert

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**Author:** ![Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mayuresh_K)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166/3 "2008-08-07T05:00:58Z")

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Absolutely, welcome aboard! Gotta love emails like that.

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**Author:** ![Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mayuresh_K)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166/4 "2008-08-07T06:12:17Z")

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:54:53PM +0900, Robert K. wrote:

> > I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and  
> > Java for the past 12 years.  
> > I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, “All Objects, All  
> > the Time” 🙂  
> > Stuff like 5.times {puts “Hello World”} is fun 😉
> > 
> > Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the long run.
> 
> Welcome aboard! And I hope you do have a lot of fun using Ruby. 🙂

Ditto!

Okay, I’ll say more:

Ruby is a heck of a lot of fun. I think so, anyway.

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**Author:** ![Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Mayuresh\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mayuresh_K)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-mail/145166/5 "2008-08-07T07:26:53Z")

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Mayuresh K. wrote:

> Though I’d first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a  
> tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded  
> me from doing so as the language wasn’t matured enough.  
> I’m revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on  
> Rails.

On that note, I’ve found it rather enlightening to read through Alan  
Kay’s “Early History of SmallTalk”  
([http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk\_Abstract.html](http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_Abstract.html))  
and then compare that to \_why’s “The Little Coder’s Predicament”  
([http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredicament.html](http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredicament.html)).  
There’s much to learn and do in the Ruby world!

-Josh