[#14464] who uses Python or Ruby, and for what? — ellard2@...01.fas.harvard.edu (-11,3-3562,3-3076)

A while ago I posted a request for people to share their experiences

12 messages 2001/05/01

[#14555] Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

10 messages 2001/05/02

[#14557] Arggg Bitten by the block var scope feature!!! — Wayne Scott <wscott@...>

13 messages 2001/05/02

[#14598] Re: Arggg Bitten by the block var scope feature!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

# On Thu, 3 May 2001, Wayne Scott wrote:

9 messages 2001/05/03

[#14636] Yet another "About private methods" question — Eric Jacoboni <jacoboni@...2.fr>

I'm still trying to figure out the semantics of private methods in Ruby.

39 messages 2001/05/04
[#14656] Re: Yet another "About private methods" question — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/05/04

Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> writes:

[#14666] Ruby and Web Applications — "Chris Montgomery" <monty@...> 2001/05/04

Greetings from a newbie,

[#14772] Re: Ruby and Web Applications — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/05/07

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Chris Montgomery wrote:

[#14710] Why's Ruby so slow in this case? — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

Sure, Ruby, being interpreted, is slower than a compiled language.

12 messages 2001/05/05

[#14881] Class/Module Information — "John Kaurin" <jkaurin@...>

It is possible to modify the following code to produce

18 messages 2001/05/09

[#15034] Re: calling .inspect on array/hash causes core dump — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "A" == Andreas Riedl <viisi@chello.at> writes:

15 messages 2001/05/12

[#15198] Re: Q: GUI framework with direct drawing ca pabilities? — Steve Tuckner <SAT@...>

Would it be a good idea to develop a pure Ruby GUI framework built on top of

13 messages 2001/05/15

[#15234] Pluggable sorting - How would you do it? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Hello all,

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[#15549] ColdFusion for Ruby — "Michael Dinowitz" <mdinowit@...2000.com>

I don't currently use Ruby. To tell the truth, I have no real reason to. I'd

12 messages 2001/05/22

[#15569] I like ruby-chan ... — Rob Armstrong <rob@...>

Ruby is more human(e) than Python. We already have too many animals :-).

15 messages 2001/05/23

[#15601] How to avoid spelling mistakes of variable names — ndrochak@... (Nick Drochak)

Since Ruby does not require a variable to be declared, do people find

13 messages 2001/05/23

[#15734] java based interpreter and regexes — "Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair@...>

I have been thinking about the java based ruby interpreter project, and I

48 messages 2001/05/25

[#15804] is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby? — mirian@... (Mirian Crzig Lennox)

Greetings to all. I am a newcomer to Ruby and I am exploring the

13 messages 2001/05/27
[#15807] Re: is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby? — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/05/27

Hi,

[#15863] Experimental "in" operator for collections — Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>

There's one thing where I prefer Python over Ruby. Testing whether an

13 messages 2001/05/28

[#15925] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "M" == Mike <mike@lepton.fr> writes:

43 messages 2001/05/29
[#16070] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2001/05/31

----- Original Message -----

[#16081] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — Sean Russell <ser@...> 2001/05/31

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:17AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

[#16088] Re: Block arguments vs method arguments — Dan Moniz <dnm@...> 2001/05/31

At 11:01 PM 5/31/2001 +0900, Sean Russell wrote:

[#15954] new keyword idea: tryreturn, tryturn or done — Juha Pohjalainen <voidjump@...>

Hello everyone!

12 messages 2001/05/29

[ruby-talk:14568] Re: Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language

From: "jennyw" <jennyw@...>
Date: 2001-05-03 01:49:01 UTC
List: ruby-talk #14568
I'm confused by people saying that there is no scripting language for Mac OS
X ... AppleScript should be included:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/

Jen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Zarnett" <bryan_zarnett@yahoo.ca>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:14565] Re: Ruby as a Mac OS/X scripting language


> I was looking at OS/X yesterday and although the sales
> guys where terrible (when the found out I was not
> going to spend 6k on the G4 laptop they ignored me) I
> did have the pleasure to try OS/X -- more
> specifically, the console.
>
> Tk/Tcl is already ported so is Perl. The OS/X shell
> comes with the cc compiler and all the base libs for
> compiling Ruby, so on that front it should be pretty
> easy. Apache and all the other stuff is there, so in
> essence it should be a straight BSD compile of Ruby.
>
> I'm currently looking at OS/X and the new iBook as a
> possible laptop semi-Unix type of box.
>
> So, the executive summary -- I think the port should
> be fairly easy and should work well over all. In
> principle, adding additional Mac-based items should be
> fairly simple as the API is a bit better written than
> what I saw in MacOS 8.
>
> Bryan "I really like the new iBook" Zarnett
>
> P.S. If they want to send an iBook and OS/X to my
> house I will be more than willing to do a port :-)
>
> --- Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
> >
> > Andy and I got an interesting couple of e-mails
> > saying that Apple
> > needs a scripting language for OS/X, and that Ruby
> > might fit the bill
> > nicely.
> >
> > Given that I don't have a MacI'm really in no
> > position to say, but
> > this seems interesting.
> >
> > Does anyone with some OS/X background have any
> > insights here?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Footnotes:
> >   but I do have a dark brown overcoat
> >
> >
>
>
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