From: Pete McBreen Date: 2001-11-14T03:10:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:25051] Re: Linux Magazine article Dave Thomas wrote in message ... > > >Andy & I've been asked to write a feature article about Ruby for Linux >Magazine (www.linux-mag.com). > >I want to make this an upbeat article, featuring Ruby's strengths Upbeat is good. Features that impressed me are irb - interactive scripting with immediate response is really neat and makes it easy to learn what is happening. complete objects - gotta love no more for loops! 3.times wins every time for me small size, incomplete but evolving set of libraries - Ruby is still small enough to learn quite quickly and the fact that the libraries are still incomplete and evolving means that there is still a lot of room left for people to contribute. The opportunity to contribute back to the Ruby community is a large part of the fun/joy of Ruby, and is a great upbeat message. Rubicon - the Ruby community is serious about ensuring that Ruby works the same across all platforms >What small applications would whet people's appetites? I'd suggest pandering to Brian Marick and showing a simple script that can walk a website and find broken links. All it would have to do would be to simply walk over a web page, find all links and fetch that link. Obviously, if it sucessfully fetches an external link it should not start validating that page :-) Pete ---- Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting , Cochrane, AB email: petemcbreen@acm.org http://www.mcbreen.ab.ca/ Author, "Software Craftsmanship The New Imperative" Addison-Wesley (C) 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201733862