[ssmoot]

There's nothing I love more than a long thread of point-by-point rebuttals, but I think I'll leave this one alone for once. ;-)

If you like what you're doing, more power to you. I picked up Ruby because I thought it showed promise as a good scripting language and web development tool (this was pre-Rails) at a time c# didn't really excel at either.

> You seem like quite the masochist

Maybe. DM was created to solve a problem. I didn't burn anything down. I just walked away. The best time to do the right thing is yesterday. The next best time is now.

After 8+ years, I realized I'd spent much of it trying to work around limitations in Ruby. It was just time to open myself up to the idea that there is more to programming than what I knew.