Just thought I’d share…
I introduced one of my colleagues to Ruby today. He’s more of an admin
than a programmer, but he does both. I let him borrow the Pick Axe
book. His response, within an hour of flipping through the pages:
“I like Ruby. Its going to be a nice way to get into true OO without
the nasty hyper-typing in Java.”.
Heh - add another one to the list of converts. 
Regards,
Dan