From: Lou Vanek <vanek@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T00:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Good Ruby Examples?

C has 'Hello world!'
Ruby has the proverbial 'ToDo' list,
	http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/7


Hampton wrote:

> I'm planning on doing a tutorial about Ruby for Ryerson University's CS
> Majors group. No one here knows anything about Ruby, so I thought it'd
> be a great way to evangelize a bit. I'm always surprised how few
> students actually code at all on their own. Most of them know Java and
> C from class, but find them to be nothing more than class projects.
> 
> What I'm asking you guys for is if you have any short code ideas that
> can be programmed *really* quickly in Ruby that might illustrate its
> versatility. Some code example that would be hell to write in other
> languages that would be interesting for an hour long explaination. I'd
> say about 20 to 30 lines or so.
> 
> So, what's everybody's favorite smallish examples of the power of
> coding with Ruby.
> 
> -hampton.