From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2002-03-06T19:16:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How Ruby differs from Other Languages?

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:39, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am new to Ruby.
> Just started learning few days back.
> It looks similar to Python.
>
> Could anyone list out the special features in Ruby
> which makes it different from other Languages?
> or
> give me the interesting links on Ruby articles.
If you want a (technical) comparison of Ruby versus Python et al,
look at:
http://www.approximity.com/ruby/Comparison_rb_st_m_java.html

(I take that with copy & paste from one of Stefan's emails :-))
well, Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote an article for dr. dobbs
(anniversary issue january 2001), they have an online version of
their book, where you could skim the first chapters for interesting
code snippets and then stop for further reading. 

A short glance produced the following presentations:
* http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/paris2001/index.html
* http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/talks/introruby/introruby.htm

and articles:
* http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0101/
* http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/articles/index.html

The book "Programming Ruby" is available via links at the bottom
of the page http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/

What I like best about Ruby are the easily usable code blocks
(esp. in iterators) and some neat tricks you can do with
eval, instance_eval and module_eval (reminds me of lisp macros)

hmmm ... of course we have www.approximity.com/rubybuch, but
it is in German ...
>
> - S. Sridevi

-- 
Armin.

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