From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-09-14T12:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby article

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > JRuby article here.
> >
> >
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-alj09084/?ca=
> dgr-lnxw07JRubyIntro
>
> Thanks T.
>
> It's good to see articles like this.  It's a shame that they all use such
> unidiomatic Ruby, like
>
>   print "Hello, world!\n"
>
> instead of
>
>   puts "Hello, world!"
>
> and 'if not' instead of 'unless'.  Oh well... at least it's going to
> encourage me to try it out!

I think its because the authors are not really Rubyists. I didn't recognize
the names of the authors so I did some googling. For the first author,
Michael Squillace, I could not find any web references that included Ruby
except for this article. And it looks like the second author, Barry
Feigenbaum, has a penchant for scripting languages implemented in Java --
he's also written articles on JPython and Groovy.

But the having more press for Ruby is always good and who knows, maybe these
two authors will become smitten by Ruby from this experience!  :-)

Curt