From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-02-20T09:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

On Feb 19, 2007, at 7:11 AM, SonOfLilit wrote:

> http://rubymentor.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?AurSarafAndSamantha
>
> This is an edited transcript of my discussions with Samantha this far.

One of the downsides of a two-person chat, as opposed to asking a  
question here is that you don't get as much input.  I'm not saying  
that makes the mentoring idea bad, but I do think it's something we  
want to keep in mind.

For example, in that transcript, Aur says:

"YAML is really like XML... You can, if you want, do whatever XML  
thing you wanted but in YAML syntax..."

I know the Ruby community is very pro YAML and really down on XML,  
but the fact remains that the have different purposes.  XML is a  
markup language.  It is for marking up content.  YAML is a data  
description language.  It's primarily used for serializing data into  
a human readable format.  These are different purposes.

If you have trouble understanding the difference, try converting the  
home page of your web site into a reasonable YAML format.  It's a  
good exercise.

I would likely favor XML as a format for my r�sum�, though that point  
is certainly debatable.

James Edward Gray II