From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T21:10:19+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

James Britt [mailto:jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com]
>
> Florian Gross wrote:
> > Hal Fulton wrote:
> >
> >> Florian Gross wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> See attachment. ;)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Florian,
> >>
> >> This seems pretty cool, and could revolutionize the way Rubyists
> >> write Javascript.  :)
>
> This Rubyist taught a class in JavaScript, and tried to teach how to
> write JavaScript in a cleaner, OO way that typically doesn't appear in
> most books, Web tutorials, or examples.
>
> And a good deal of the thinking came from experience with Ruby.

It's interesting that my path was analogous, but reversed. Seven years ago I
wrote the equivalent of ActiveRecord in JavaScript -- using the database
schema to automatically construct auto-updating objects with attributes
named after the table's columns.

I think this positive experience with dynamic programming made it easier for
me to immediately understand the benefits of ruby (I guess being an
ex-smalltalker who understood blocks didn't hurt either :-).

Curt