[#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:01423] Re: Say hi (bis)

From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-02-16 03:57:13 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1423
From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>

>     on 00/02/15, Pixel <pixel_@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> |stuff i want mainly is _compile-time_ checks.

> Hmm, I'm not sure this kind of type inference for totally dynamic
> language like Ruby would work.  In Ruby, even Fixnum#+ can be
> redefined, so that no type information can be used at compile time.
> It's much harder than Perl, which is partially static typed language.
>
> Yes, Perl is a statically typed language, except for references.  The
> only types in Perl are scalar, array, hash, and type glob. :-)

That last comment wants to be copied to the end of the list of Perl
comparisons at
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/compar.html

Conrad


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