[#20675] RCR: non-bang equivalent to []= — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi,

49 messages 2001/09/01
[#20774] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []= — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2001/09/03

I wrote:

[#20778] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []= — Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...> 2001/09/03

--- Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:

[#20715] oreilly buch von matz - website online — markus jais <info@...>

hi

43 messages 2001/09/02
[#20717] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) 2001/09/02

Actually, thanks for posting it here. I was trying to search OReilly's

[#20922] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2001/09/05

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Phil Tomson wrote:

[#20768] Minor cgi.rb question — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I don't have much experience with

25 messages 2001/09/03

[#20770] Calling member methods from C++ — jglueck@... (Bernhard Glk)

Some quetsions have been solved for me, but my message system does not

12 messages 2001/09/03

[#20976] destructor — Frank Sonnemans <ruby@...>

Does Ruby have a destructor as in C++?

25 messages 2001/09/07

[#21218] Ruby objects <-> XML: anyone working on this? — senderista@... (Tobin Baker)

Are there any Ruby analogs of these two Python modules (xml_pickle,

13 messages 2001/09/15

[#21296] nested require files need path internally — Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>

Version: 1.64

29 messages 2001/09/18
[#21298] Re: nested require files need path internally — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/09/18

Hello --

[#21302] Re: nested require files need path internally — Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...> 2001/09/18

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David Alan Black wrote:

[#21303] Re: nested require files need path internally — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/09/18

Hi,

[#21306] Re: nested require files need path internally — Lars Christensen <larsch@...> 2001/09/18

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#21307] Re: nested require files need path internally — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/09/18

Hi,

[#21331] Re: nested require files need path internally — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2001/09/18

> The big difference is C++ search done in compile time, Ruby search

[#21340] Re: nested require files need path internally — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/09/18

Hi,

[#21353] Re: nested require files need path internally — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2001/09/18

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#21366] Re: nested require files need path internally — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/09/19

Hi,

[#21368] Re: nested require files need path internally — "Julian Fitzell" <julian-ml@...4.com> 2001/09/19

On 19/09/2001 at 10:12 AM matz@ruby-lang.org wrote:

[#21376] Re: nested require files need path internally — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/09/19

Hi,

[#21406] Re: nested require files need path internally — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2001/09/19

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#21315] Suggestions for new CGI lib — anders@... (Anders Johannsen)

From the comp.lang.ruby thread "Minor cgi.rb question" (2001-09-03), I

21 messages 2001/09/18

[#21413] Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — Brian Marick <marick@...>

I fell in love with Lisp in the early 80's. Back then, I read a book called

36 messages 2001/09/19
[#21420] Re: Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...> 2001/09/20

On 20 Sep 2001 06:19:44 +0900, Brian Marick wrote:

[#21479] Re: Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...> 2001/09/21

--- Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

[#21491] SV: Re: Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — "Mikkel Damsgaard" <mikkel_damsgaard@...> 2001/09/21

[#21494] Re: SV: Re: Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...> 2001/09/21

--- Mikkel Damsgaard <mikkel_damsgaard@mailme.dk> wrote:

[#21510] Re: SV: Re: Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — Todd Gillespie <toddg@...> 2001/09/22

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Kevin Smith wrote:

[#21514] Re: SV: Re: Ruby/objects book in style of The Little Lisper — Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...> 2001/09/22

--- Todd Gillespie <toddg@mail.ma.utexas.edu> wrote:

[#21535] irb — Fabio <fabio.spelta@...>

Hello. :) I'm new here, and I have not found an archive of the previous

15 messages 2001/09/22

[#21616] opening a named pipe? — "Avdi B. Grimm" <avdi@...>

I'm having trouble reading from a named pipe in linux. basicly, I'm

12 messages 2001/09/24

[#21685] manipulating "immutable" objects such as Fixnum from within callbacks & al... — Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2001/09/25

[#21798] Ruby internal (guide to the source) — "Benoit Cerrina" <benoit.cerrina@...>

Hi,

22 messages 2001/09/28

[ruby-talk:21365] Re: PC Magazine

From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-09-19 01:04:56 UTC
List: ruby-talk #21365
Hello --

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ryan Tarpine wrote:

> In the October issue of PC Magazine, in his Inside Track column John C.
> Dvorak writes:
>
> Hot Language Dept.:  If you want to witness an interesting groundswell of
> adoption that has been rivaled only by the self-generating publicity of
> Java a few years ago, look no further than an emerging object-oriented
> scripting language called Ruby.  Developed in Japan, this language is as
> easy to learn as old-fashioned BASIC and is expected to challenge PERL as
> the language of choice for programming servers to do cool things.
> ....Info about O'Reilly's book...
> Start with www.ruby-lang.org.  Described by some as a cross between
> Smalltalk and C++, Ruby has IBMers jumping on the bandwagon -- especially

Hmmmm.... I don't think I'd heard the C++ part before.  Whatever.

> the Linux mavens.  Oh, and the best part:  It's free.
>
> I've heard comments recently that we should not try to gain too much
> publicity since the language is still young.  Any comments on the positives
> and/or negatives of such an exposure as this?

I think it's good.  Ruby may be young-ish, but it wouldn't be good for
publicity to be delayed until the language becomes old, at which point
people would wonder why they've never heard of it if it's so great and
has been around for so long :-)


David (slowly catching up on ruby-talk messages from the last week)

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