From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T09:48:31+09:00
Subject: Re: New (?) Ruby Web Book by Bruno R. Preiss

http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/programs/index.html

Is a listing of the code examples with a link to the code.

It may be a fairly literal translation of other code- it implements a
type manager for certain classes. Haven't looked closely enough to see
if there is a design reason for this.

Nick


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:29:42 -0500, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
<vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, it looks pretty good to me.
> 
> The side bar has these links:
> 
> C++ Version
> Java Version
> C# Version
> Python Version
> 
> So it also offers a possibly interesting means to compare some
> language features.
> 
> The code for the Ruby version is definitely Ruby, and you can download
> it. It contains 280 files.
> 
> Running wc against the files:
> lines=7731
> words=23259
> characters=174427
> 
> about 1/2 the lines are a header comment in the smaller programs, so
> actualy numbers are probabably a little bit over half the above
> numbers.
> 
> It general, it looks like there are a lot of different algorthims
> implemented- merges, sorts, graphs, stacks, queues, lists, etc.
> 
> Overall, it looks very cool. I look forward to looking at it in more detail.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:40:51 +0900, David Sletten <david@slytobias.com> wrote:
> > ruby talk wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:44:43 +0900, Andreas Semt <as@computer-leipzig.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hello everyone!
> > >>
> > >>found a "web book" by Bruno R. Preiss with the title:
> > >>"Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented
> > >>Design Patterns in Ruby".
> > >
> > >
> > > I think I've seen his before, and was struck by how little Ruby there
> > > is.  It appears to be a general-purpose data structure + algorithm
> > > book, with some references  to Ruby tossed in.  There may even be some
> > > Ruby code, but a casual glance says otherwise.
> > >
> > >
> > > It may be handy for an abstract explanation what trees and lists are,
> > > though it does not seem to do so in the context of Ruby.
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > >
> > It's pretty obvious that the author has warmed over an existing book
> > considering that the title on the web page is:
> > Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in
> > Python
> >
> > David Sletten
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
> 


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