[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

33 messages 2000/02/08

[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Conrad writes:

13 messages 2000/02/15

[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>

17 messages 2000/02/19
[#1544] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...> 2000/02/23

Hello Ian,

[#1550] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...> 2000/02/23

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:

[#1516] Ruby: PLEASE use comp.lang.misc for all Ruby programming/technical questions/discussions!!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>

((FYI: This was sent to the Ruby mail list.))

10 messages 2000/02/19

[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article

12 messages 2000/02/25

[ruby-talk:01369] Re: Scripting versus programming

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-02-15 05:28:18 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1369
"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

> For those of us who (to varying degrees) regard Ruby as in the same league
> as Scheme and Smalltalk, except better (indeed better enough to bother
> learning), calling Ruby a scripting language is somewhat-to-very misleading
> (in effect, not in intent), despite whatever the strict definition of
> scripting is. How many of you hear Scheme and Smalltalk described as
> scripting languages? How many of you would normally describe them that way?

Andy and I certainly agree. In the book we're working hard not to use
the word 'script' at all!


Dave

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