[#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,

16 messages 2001/05/16

[#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:14739] Re: Database abstraction and GUI IDE's

From: Shawn Gordon <shawn@...>
Date: 2001-05-06 13:47:32 UTC
List: ruby-talk #14739
I wanted to fix one point that I made.  The free editor we will be making 
available, *will* also be available on Windows.

At 09:08 AM 5/4/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is a bit of an introduction, and some possible promotion.  My company 
>recently started to get involved with Ruby and I would like to give you 
>all a heads up of what is coming in the next few weeks.  I apologize in 
>advance if this isn't appropriate for this list, but this seemed the most 
>focused place to get the information available.
>
>1.  We will be releasing a free editor for Ruby that makes use of the Qt 
>(www.trolltech.com) toolkit for the window manager, and our port of 
>Scintilla for syntax highlighting.  This is meant to be useful and a taste 
>of our commercial product BlackAdder.  Because of the Qt license 
>restrictions we can only make the free editor available on Linux.
>
>2.  Ruby version of BlackAdder 
>(www.thekompany.com/products/blackadder).  BlackAdder is a GUI IDE for 
>Python that works on Windows and Linux.  We have just added support for 
>Ruby and are testing it internally now.  BlackAdder uses Qt to be 
>multi-platform and a separate Python specific ODBC connectivity library.
>
>Now I think what is especially interesting is that version 3 of Qt will 
>first support the Mac (this is in beta now) and also contains an 
>abstracted data access layer called Qdb.  BlackAdder will also support 
>these as soon as they are available, all in the same package.
>
>BlackAdder is still in beta, but is nearing release.  We have been selling 
>it at a discounted price during the beta period for as low as $49.99.  We 
>are going to be integrating the fine book on Ruby written by Dave Thomas 
>and Andrew Hunt in the online help system.
>
>So essentially in one box you will have Ruby, Python with support for 
>Linux and Windows and soon the Mac as well as the database connectivity 
>for Ruby.  It will take us a bit longer to get the debugger support for 
>Ruby built, but it will be coming.
>
>We are looking forward to the input and feedback from the Ruby community 
>to fine tune BlackAdder once it becomes available.
>
>
>Warm Regards,
>
>Shawn Gordon
>President
>theKompany.com
>www.thekompany.com
>949-713-3276


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276


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