[#10209] Market for XML Web stuff — Matt Sergeant <matt@...>

I'm trying to get a handle on what the size of the market for AxKit would be

15 messages 2001/02/01

[#10238] RFC: RubyVM (long) — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2001/02/01
[#10364] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long) — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/02/05

[#10708] Suggestion for threading model — Stephen White <spwhite@...>

I've been playing around with multi-threading. I notice that there are

11 messages 2001/02/11

[#10853] Re: RubyChangeRequest #U002: new proper name for Hash#indexes, Array#indexes — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>

10 messages 2001/02/14

[#11037] to_s and << — "Brent Rowland" <tarod@...>

list = [1, 2.3, 'four', false]

15 messages 2001/02/18

[#11094] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

12 messages 2001/02/19

[#11131] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Robert Feldt wrote:

10 messages 2001/02/19

[#11251] Programming Ruby is now online — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

36 messages 2001/02/21

[#11469] XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)

23 messages 2001/02/24
[#11490] Re: XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig) 2001/02/24

Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:

[#11491] Negative Reviews for Ruby and Programming Ruby — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/02/24

Hi all:

[#11633] RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

13 messages 2001/02/26

[#11652] RE: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Michael Davis <mdavis@...>

I like it!

14 messages 2001/02/27

[#11700] Starting Once Again — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

OK, I'm starting again with Ruby. I'm just assuming that I've

31 messages 2001/02/27
[#11712] RE: Starting Once Again — "Aaron Hinni" <aaron@...> 2001/02/27

> 2. So far I think running under TextPad will be better than running

[#11726] Re: Starting Once Again — Aleksi Niemel<zak@...> 2001/02/28

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Aaron Hinni wrote:

[ruby-talk:10572] Re: book review?

From: "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-02-08 13:34:44 UTC
List: ruby-talk #10572
<amos+lists.ruby-talk@utdallas.edu> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:40:02 +0900,
> >>>>> Andrew Hunt <andy@toolshed.com> (ah) writes:
>
>ah> That's the ticket, start teaching good habits young.
>
>Actually, I was wondering the other day whether Ruby might make a
>good CS introductory language.  When I was taking early CS courses
>long ago, I remember then the debates in some of the lang USENET
>groups between C++ and LISP as the introductory language.  Seems
>like Ruby would have them both beat.

A lot of the following proposal for teaching Python to
children looks applicable:

http://www.cwi.nl/www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e.html

(Including the comment about case mattering, and truncation
of integer division being confusing.)

Also Ruby borrows many core ideas from Smalltalk.  Which
was actually designed for teaching children:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/smalltalk1.html

So I would guess that Ruby would also work well.  But
personally I would guess that an interactive IDE like
Smalltalk has is likely to be an important missing
feature.

Cheers,
Ben
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