[#13775] Problems with racc rule definitions — Michael Neumann <neumann@...>

15 messages 2001/04/17
[#13795] Re: Problems with racc rule definitions — Minero Aoki <aamine@...> 2001/04/18

Hi,

[#13940] From Guido, with love... — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

52 messages 2001/04/20

[#13953] regexp — James Ponder <james@...>

Hi, I'm new to ruby and am coming from a perl background - therefore I

19 messages 2001/04/21

[#14033] Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks — harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)

I wrote my first small distributed application yesterday and it worked

15 messages 2001/04/22

[#14040] RCR: getClassFromString method — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

It would be nice to have a function that returns a class type given a

20 messages 2001/04/22

[#14130] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Guy N. Hurst wrote:

21 messages 2001/04/24
[#14148] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — Stephen White <spwhite@...> 2001/04/24

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Conrad Schneiker wrote:

[#14188] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/04/25

Hi,

[#14193] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...> 2001/04/25

On Tuesday 24 April 2001 23:02, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#14138] Re: python on the smalltalk VM — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

FYI: Thought this might be of interest to the JRuby and Ruby/GUI folks.

27 messages 2001/04/24
[#14153] Re: python on the smalltalk VM — Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@...> 2001/04/24

Conrad Schneiker <schneik@austin.ibm.com> writes:

[#14154] array#flatten! question — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/04/24

Hello.

[#14159] Can I insert into an array — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/04/24

Ok, this may be a dumb question, but, is it possible to insert into an

[#14162] Re: Can I insert into an array — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/04/24

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

[#14289] RCR: Array#insert — Shugo Maeda <shugo@...> 2001/04/27

At Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:28:36 +0900,

[#14221] An or in an if. — Tim Pettman <tjp@...>

Hi there,

18 messages 2001/04/25

[#14267] Re: Ruby mascot proposal — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Danny van Bruggen,

16 messages 2001/04/26

[#14452] How to do it the Ruby-way 3 — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

First a question: Why is

21 messages 2001/04/30

[ruby-talk:13702] Re: ANN: German Ruby article in the iX magazine (5/2001)

From: Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>
Date: 2001-04-16 14:11:24 UTC
List: ruby-talk #13702
Hi Clemens!

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:39:21 +0200, "Clemens Wyss" <wys@helbling.ch>
wrote:

>Did my best to give Ruby a first positive appearance in the german
>(IT-)publicity...
>   http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2001/05/078/default.shtml
>In the article寄 discussion forum language war(s) have come up, but  I am
>pretty sure we can attract one or another to "give Ruby a chance".

IMHO you did a great job.  Your article made my eventually looking at
Ruby after I stumbled across that language a few times in the past.
Instead of working on a Java project I spend all my time this weekend
experimenting with Ruby...

I also read the articles from the (German language) discussion forum.
I wouldn't call that a language war.  Somebody seemed to like Perl
better than anything else and two other guys tried to convince him
that Ruby's advantage is the affinity with Smalltalk.  Somebody else
disliked the syntax and was "corrected" (I can't however agree that
anything could be better than the beauty of the pure Smalltalk syntax
:-)

It seems that Ruby attracts a lot of people coming from an Eiffel or
Smalltalk background who ever really liked languages like Perl, Python
or even Java.

I personally like Ruby because I'm such a guy and it contains enough
Smalltalk to make me feel comfortable.

I like the syntax, especially in contrast to Perl or Python (probably
Ruby's main competitors).  It has a few quirks, for example that
"a.b[c]" can have a completely different meaning that "a.b [c]" but
overall it's clean and easy to read.

Currently, I'd have preferred if you would have to declare variables
but at least a Ruby interpreter which could issue "read before
written" warnings for local variables is thinkable.

A small annoyance is IMHO that I cannot put umlauts in variable or
method names and I'm even unable (using a Windows Ruby from the
pragmatic programmer's page in a cygwin shell) to print umlauts.  A
program like "p '糜'" only emits "\344\366\374".  RubyWin tries to
print something different, probably Japanse characters.


bye
--
Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox

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