Hi pall,
Always good to read posts from you !
I know you have much more experience than I with SM/FS [or probably programming in general].
When I transported to the FS release, I was curious about this RUBY stuff, but honestly, I couldn't get the first line of code to work. It easily became something that I just ignored. [I do this for personal reason mostly to make tools for my work].
Slowly ... with MUCH help ... over and over ... the FS GANG always came to my rescue. Very slowly I started to get some clue .... and then I'd be right back in trouble again
I was hitting all the RUBY sites I could find [most suggested here]. And some of the basics started working.
I still consider my 'Ruby level' as basic .... maybe a little less

But the thing is ...
There was some operation I needed to do. It was nothing real complicated, but I found that stringing the PRIMS together was getting quite complicated. I had a 'logic' in my head, but trying to realize it as PRIMS was getting messy in a hurry.
I drew on some of the GFABasic I was teaching myself [Atari Computer in the 80's], and applied the thinking into RUBY. Real long story short [sure] ... I eventual refined the working RUBY code into a handful of lines. Comparing to my attempted PRIM design ... it was no contest.
From that point on ... I looked at a RUBY solution in a different light.
It is so much more powerful than I grasp ... but it really has opened another side to this type of programming.
Again ... at my very basic understand with it ... I am glad that I try to call on it. It is also great that the 'experienced ones' have also shared some very useful RUBY routines.
Not trying to talk 'you' into anything ... just a share of recent experience.
I really hope that FS expands, and that it develops to handle the requests that have been voiced.
Honestly ... it's only because of the SM, now FS concept, that I'm even involved. If Mr Kurtweil is correct in Our potential longevity ... well ... I'd still say that I would NOT be trying to tackle C or C++ or whatever names they call it.
Yes ... it would be fantastic to be able to ... but this last brain cell can only take so many beatings.
OK ... honestly ... hope you DO consider the FS .... 'cause then you might be here posting cool stuff [like at SM] ... and helping out us pitiful ones
Well .... that, and I wanted to say HI ... and again thank-you for things you've posted !
