From: Ola Bini <ola.bini@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T23:23:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Book wanted: Metaprogramming in Ruby

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Bil Kleb wrote:
>> Jay Levitt wrote:
>>> Anyone wanna write this next?  
>> FWIW, at Agile 2006 Martin Fowler mentioned he
>> might write one on DSLs.
>>
>> Later,
>> -- 
>> Bil Kleb
>> http://kleb.tadalist.com/lists/public/427170
>>
>>
> Actually, if Martin Fowler wants to write another book, he should expand
> "Refactoring" and translate it into Ruby. :)
> 
> Seriously, though, I'm not sure a whole book on metaprogramming,
> Ruby-based or otherwise, is either necessary or useful at this point in
> the technology cycle. There are quite a few articles on the subject.
> What I'd rather see a book on is dealing with *concurrency* in Ruby.
> Dual-core and quad-core chips aren't going away. :) Francis? You're our
> resident expert, I think ...
> 
> 

But concurrency in Ruby is still green threads, so that would have to be 
either concurrency with YARV, or concurrency with separate Ruby 
processes communicating in some way.

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