From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-03-24T06:35:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the word to conventional programmers

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:18:49 +0900, Rob . <rob.02004@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the article the following comments were made:
> 
> "In five years I expect that dynamic languages ... [will] overtake
> Java and C++ as the dominant implementation languages in most areas."
> - Guido van Rossum
> 
> "One problem shared by all scripting languages is the lack of a good
> IDE environment." - Dave Thomas
> 
> I believe the potential growth of Ruby usage is tied to the
> availability of more sophisticated editors - we need something like
> Intellij IDEA for Ruby. The Ruby Editor Plugin I'm developing for
> jEdit will provide some of the features available in Intellij like:
>   auto indent and insert end (done)
>   file structure popup (done)
>   next error (done)
>   previous error (done)
>   next method
>   previous method
>   go to class
>   find usage
>   find declaration
>   extract variable
>   complete code
>   quick rdoc
> 
> I'm happy to try porting some of this work to FreeRide at a later
> date, but because of past experience I'm more productive in jEdit for
> now.
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:09:59 +0900, Cameron Laird <claird@lairds.us> wrote:
> > *DevSource* profiles "The State of the Scripting Universe" in
> > <URL: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp >.


I'm a vim diehard, but it would be nice to have something like ctags
or similar for Ruby.  It would be great to hit a key and see a list of
the available functions and their arguments.  One of the problem(s)
probably would be that every class in Ruby has a ton of available
functions, as they all inherit from a base class.