Ruby, more specifically, Ruby on Rails, is an amazingly intuitive and attractive programming language. It is being used to create many cutting-edge Web 2.0 websites, such as Twitter. It has powerful functions that take care of a lot of “programmer’s dirty work.”

The tools to create a Rails web application are free. For example, “Instant Rails” gives you all that you need on a Windows platform to get started. A simple, and free, text editor like Intype is all you need to write clean code.

I hope the higher education jumps on-board and starts teaching this to new programmers.  The world needs more cutting-edge, Web 2.0 programmers, and less Assembly Language programmers.