From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T18:17:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23413] Re: O'Reilly site has "An Introduction to Ruby" article

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, James Britt (rubydev) wrote:

> Just saw that the O'Reilly site has "An Introduction to Ruby" article:
> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/25/ruby.html
> 
Nice but some minor issues with the article:

"In Python, methods are objects, which they aren't in Ruby" seems wrong
given class Method etc, and

I find "Python supports multiple inheritance, which Ruby does not." a bit
simplistic since mix-in with modules is not mentioned.

NOTE to Colin and others: I'm not "flaming". Its a good intro.

Personally I don't like the "Ruby as better Perl" idea (I'd rather not
have the cryptic $_ etc) but maybe its the way to go to win people
over. I'm not sure.

> You can also get a beta chapter from  Ruby in a Nutshell, "Standard Library Reference":
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ruby/chapter/ch04.html
> 
Thanks for the links,

Robert