From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2008-09-18T21:26:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Reseach paper on Ruby. Need references. ------=_Part_35446_7217932.1221741261596 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Suneel Suneel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing masters in computer science. I'm required to submit a research > paper on a topic of my interest. I'm interested in learning ruby and > wanted to do research on Ruby covering topics like "features of Ruby, > comparision with other languages, pros and cons, object oriented > programing, Ruby on rails etc". The problem is I need to find at least > 10 papers on ruby that have been published in technical journals, white > papers from reputed laboratories and universities. I did google but > couldn't find much that I can mention as my references. I found around 5 > papers in ACM digital library. I need 5 more. Please help. > > Hmm, this looks like it might be a chicken-and-egg problem. Ruby doesn't seem to have attracted the academics as much as Java/Smalltalk/C++... then you are having trouble getting permission to do an academic paper because there isn't enough existing academic literature. I did a google search on oopsla ruby and hit things like an ad for Rails hosting by engine yard on a site about the upcoming OOPSLA 08, and articles where ruby was part of an author's name, same kind of thing for sigplan ruby Maybe there are some Japanese academic works? Do your references really all have to be directly about Ruby or can you fill out the bibliography with some more general programming languages, object-orientation etc. or the languages you are comparing to Ruby? -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ ------=_Part_35446_7217932.1221741261596--