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Here’s a presentation I did earlier today. Hat tip goes out to the RedMonk guys for stirring up interest. I’m quite sure that somebody out there won’t like it. Particularly since there really isn’t much new in these slides.
Now, off to RubyConf, which appears to be sold out. Hopefully my friends will pull some strings. ;-)
And, no MrO, sorry to disappoint, but I am taking a plane.
Your “Assignment” slide title is misspelled.
Posted by NoOneSpecial atYou know that your slides don’t work in Safari, right?
Posted by Stefan Tilkov atNever mind, they do. User error.
Posted by Stefan Tilkov atSam, the title of Least Insightful Programming-Oriented Presentation is not easily won. Be proud.
Did you hate Ruby’s syntax when you first sat down? I still feel that way, but I recall feeling the same way about Python (still hate the scoping there, but everything else is great). Also, how does Ruby compare to Python in when interacting with C libraries and/or implementing language features in C? A very good Python hacker once explained to me that a lot of the stuff I don’t like in Python is there to keep the C interface sane (as opposed to, say, Stackless).
Posted by Robert Sayre atA cool presentation about Ruby and Ruby on Rails by Sam Ruby.......
Excerpt from Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff atWhat do you think about the lack of an image system in Ruby? I know that it introduces its own set of problems in Smalltalk, but I see a lot of upside to having it.
Posted by Duncan Mak atDid you hate Ruby’s syntax when you first sat down?
No
Posted by Sam Ruby atNow, off to RubyConf, which appears to be sold out. Hopefully my friends will pull some strings. ;-)
I definitely feel most welcome here. Laminated name-tag prepared in advance, several people seem to have recognized me and introduced themselves.
Posted by Sam Ruby atWelcome to RubyConf from three seats to your right (and a long time reader of Intertwingly)! Glad to see you here!
Rick
Posted by Rick Bradley atRegarding LINQ, have you seen what Nat Pryce has written about “Higher Order Messaging” in Ruby (here, here and here)? I find it really interesting!
Posted by Jonas Bengtsson atwe do what we can ;)
great presentation.
Posted by stephen o'grady atWhile I agree that Ruby has great features, its special-character heavy syntax still rubs me the wrong way whenever I read or write Ruby code. Maybe I’ll get used to it over time. I doubt it though.
BTW, Eclipse users should try RadRails. It’s rapidly shaping up to be my main Ruby IDE.
Posted by Don Park atWhoops. You made a typo. You said that “Ruby is Smalltalk with better syntax”, when when you obviously meant to say is “worse syntax”. Named arguments are the Right Thing(tm). They may be less terse,but they make the code infinitely more readable. Too bad Ruby doesn’t have them.
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