I would have wanted to know about Ruby

[balrog]

> >> Y'know, those of you in the Ruby world who make a point of going around
> >> trashing other languages are probably doing more to hurt the acceptance
> >> of Ruby over the long haul than anything else.  It's *rude*.  I was
> >> almost interested enough in Ruby at one point to check it out, but I
> >> have to say that the Attitude I've seen so far is even worse than the
> >> Perlers.

Well I won't tell you how to pick your languages.  

I would have been glad to know about Ruby when I was looking at Python, 
Tcl & Perl some time back.