From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T11:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: PLEAC-Ruby

On 11/23/05, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
> > Has anyone seen this before?
> >
> > It's a project that aims to implement the Perl cookbook solutions in Ruby.
> >
> > http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/
> >
> > It has a lot of really good ideas in it, but it's kind of hit or miss
> > as far as Ruby idioms goes and looks to be out of date in places.
> >
> > Still, I think it could be a good resource if we collectively bug
> > whoever is running the project about idioms and whatnot and also help
> > fill in the holes.
> >
> > I only mention it because I don't see many links to it on popular ruby
> > sites, and I'm wondering if people have seen this, what they think of
> > it, and if they think it might be worth helping out with.
> >
>
> Take cover, everyone....
>
> (Search the archives for pleac.)

Haha... I just did.  So it seems this project is centered around
writing perl in other languages essentially?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/3290d2baac3f0105

Hmm... not exactly my cup of tea.   Though I do think something in
this spirit (but with more focus on writing ruby with it's idioms )
would be nice.   I know O'Reilly is working on a cookbook, but it
would be nice to see a community maintained project...