On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > For someone who is just starting out in programming, I think the very > last thing you want is a verbose language that makes you spend half > your time talking about types that you don't really care about. I'm > not saying there isn't a time and a place for static type-checking, > but while learning to program isn't it. +1 "I couldn't agree more." To all points. And now that we know your language of choice, we are anxiously awaiting your "MARC-8 support" patch to ruby-marc, Mike. -Ross.