# Quick self-intro/comment

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/quick-self-intro-comment/7465>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [18 August 2003 04:19 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/quick-self-intro-comment/7465 "2003-08-18T04:19:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dhtapp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@dhtapp](https://rubytalk.org/u/dhtapp)\
**Post date:** [18 August 2003 04:19 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/quick-self-intro-comment/7465/1 "2003-08-18T04:19:57Z")

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Hi, all…

Just a quick mooch of the group’s bandwidth to say how much I’m enjoying it  
here. One of the liveliest (and most courteous) ng’s I’ve visited in  
awhile.

I just discovered Ruby about two weeks ago, and haven’t really had the  
chance yet to spend more than a couple of hours with it.

I have all kinds of questions, the answers to most of which are no-doubt in  
the docs 😉 So I’m going to mostly shut up, read, work the examples, and  
listen carefully for awhile. I’m very light in functional language theory,  
and what I did once understand of it is pretty well rusted out, so I may  
privately interrupt one or the other of you occasionally with questions.

I did want to mention that, after a few years of working in the Java world,  
I’ve (perhaps) temporarily changed careers, in order to forestall terminal  
burnout. I’ve demoted software dev stuff to the status of “hobby” for a year  
or so, in order to relax and update my skillset.

I was feeling terribly self-conscious among my peers because I knew not a  
lick of Perl. Now, suddenly, with the discovery of this elegant language, I  
don’t feel quite so much like I’ve missed ground that I need to go back and  
capture.

My sincere respects to Ruby’s designer. His most significant contribution  
to me at the moment: I’m having fun again!

Regards to all,

- dan