[#37231] Announcing New Ruby Book Under Development! — <robert.calco@...>

Everybody:

31 messages 2002/04/02
[#37250] Re: [ANN] Announcing New Ruby Book Under Development! — "John" <jyeung@...> 2002/04/02

Have you checked out?

[#37279] About efficiency — Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...> 2002/04/02

[#37289] Re: About efficiency — nobu.nokada@... 2002/04/03

Hi,

[#37291] Re: About efficiency — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/03

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 20:16, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#37232] seeking to understand... — Mark Probert <probertm@...>

38 messages 2002/04/02
[#37255] Re: Ruby, python, perl, ... — Chris <chris@...> 2002/04/02

In article <87d6xhaoif.fsf@jenny-gnome.dyndns.org>,

[#37281] Is eval a code/design smell? — "Chris Morris" <home@...>

I seem to have an inherent distaste for eval, but I don't know why. I've

51 messages 2002/04/03
[#37323] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2002/04/03

On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:15:10 GMT, "Chris Morris" <home@clabs.org> wrote:

[#38034] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Ian Macdonald <ian@...> 2002/04/11

On Wed 03 Apr 2002 at 20:35:30 +0900, you wrote:

[#38045] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 01:40, Ian Macdonald wrote:

[#38061] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Ian Macdonald <ian@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu 11 Apr 2002 at 22:07:03 +0900, you wrote:

[#38063] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:06, Ian Macdonald wrote:

[#38064] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — ts <decoux@...> 2002/04/11

>>>>> "S" == Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

[#38066] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:25, ts wrote:

[#38067] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — ts <decoux@...> 2002/04/11

>>>>> "S" == Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

[#38068] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:42, ts wrote:

[#38069] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — ts <decoux@...> 2002/04/11

>>>>> "S" == Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> writes:

[#38072] Re: Is eval a code/design smell? — Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...> 2002/04/11

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:59, ts wrote:

[#37342] regular expression question — "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support" <mark.firestone@...>

Thanks for the help with the tread questions guys... I have one about (gasp)

16 messages 2002/04/03

[#37385] TextPad replacement for Linux? — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

TIA,

25 messages 2002/04/03

[#37397] Really new-new-newbie question :) — "Philip Mateescu" <philip@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2002/04/03

[#37454] ModRUBY question — George Moschovitis <gmosx@...>

Hi everybody,

18 messages 2002/04/04

[#37470] Test the result of an initialization ? — jayce@... (Jayce Piel)

17 messages 2002/04/04

[#37540] Fibonacci Number Generators — jzakiya@... (Jabari Zakiya)

Hi, I'm a newbie, coming to Ruby from a

14 messages 2002/04/04

[#37549] OO/Ruby Terminology — <james@...>

I added a wiki page for Ruby book development ...

22 messages 2002/04/05
[#37808] Re: OO/Ruby Terminology — <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.07.02@...> 2002/04/10

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[#37861] RE: OO/Ruby Terminology — <james@...> 2002/04/10

> From: bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.07.02@telemark.stanford.edu

[#37944] Re: OO/Ruby Terminology — Chris <chris@...> 2002/04/10

In article <PGEPJIFLPEPOHCKEEEIKIEFADCAA.james@rubyxml.com>,

[#37963] RE: OO/Ruby Terminology — <james@...> 2002/04/10

> From: Chris [mailto:chris@cmb-enterprises.com]

[#37617] Addition to file.c (File.extension) — Mike Hall <mghall@...>

18 messages 2002/04/05
[#37736] Re: Addition to file.c (File.extension) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2002/04/08

Hi,

[#37653] Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi:

34 messages 2002/04/06

[#37746] ruby-dev summary 16501-16750 — TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2002/04/08

[#37833] Ruby as replacement for VB? — "Robb Shecter" <rs@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2002/04/10
[#37923] Re: Ruby as replacement for VB? — Michael Davis <mdavis@...> 2002/04/10

Robb Shecter wrote:

[#39153] Re: Ruby as replacement for VB? — "Euan Mee" <xlucid@...> 2002/04/26

On 11 Apr 2002, at 1:03, Michael Davis wrote:

[#37835] crypting ruby source — Ludo <coquelle@...>

Hi,

32 messages 2002/04/10
[#38280] Re: crypting ruby source — web2ed@... (Edward Wilson) 2002/04/14

Ludo <coquelle@enib.fr> wrote in message news:<3CB31298.13A44B26@enib.fr>...

[#38044] RFC - class_added callback — Michal Rokos <m.rokos@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2002/04/11

[#38046] GetoptLong question — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

16 messages 2002/04/11
[#38051] Re: GetoptLong question — "Pit Capitain" <pit@...> 2002/04/11

On 11 Apr 2002, at 22:16, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#38101] How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2002/04/11
[#38135] Re: How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently? — Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...> 2002/04/12

Hello,

[#38159] Re: How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...> 2002/04/12

Thanks for all the responses. I just want to add the final

[#38126] Ruby/Google — Ian Macdonald <ian@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2002/04/12

[#38136] Idea for a new shorthand — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

OK, maybe this is an idea no one will like. Or

17 messages 2002/04/12

[#38167] Why Object#class Is Inconsistent in "==" and "case"? — William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2002/04/12

[#38199] not vs !, and vs && — <james@...>

I'm confused about the behavior of 'not'. The Pickaxe and Ruby21Days books

17 messages 2002/04/12

[#38238] Barnes & Noble putting on the squeeze — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

11 messages 2002/04/13

[#38239] Freshmeat article about Ruby — Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>

Hi all,

28 messages 2002/04/13
[#38447] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2002/04/16

Tobias DiPasquale wrote:

[#38457] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/04/16

Hi --

[#38560] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Mark Hulme Jones <mjones@...> 2002/04/18

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

[#38561] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2002/04/18

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:07:22AM +0900, Mark Hulme Jones wrote:

[#38562] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Pat Eyler <pate@...> 2002/04/18

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul Brannan wrote:

[#38564] Re: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Jack Herrington <jack_d_herrington@...> 2002/04/18

On 4/18/02 9:30 AM, "Pat Eyler" <pate@eylerfamily.org> wrote:

[#38648] Ruby golf (FFT) Was: Freshmeat article about Ruby — Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...> 2002/04/19

Jack Herrington wrote:

[#38657] Re: Ruby golf (FFT) Was: Freshmeat article about Ruby — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/04/19

Hello --

[#38331] mime type — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2002/04/15

[#38338] Compiling Ruby on Mac OS X — Alwyn <alwyn@...>

I've downloaded the latest Stable Snapshot and tried building it. It

18 messages 2002/04/15

[#38449] Help wanted for statvfs extension — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

35 messages 2002/04/16
[#38470] Re: Help wanted for statvfs extension — "James F.Hranicky" <jfh@...> 2002/04/17

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:04:06 +0900

[#38525] resolv.rb Bug — "Roy J. Milican" <roy@...>

Greetings,

18 messages 2002/04/17

[#38627] Imlib2-Ruby 0.4.0 — Paul Duncan <pabs@...>

I just posted Imlib2-Ruby version 0.4.0, my Ruby bindings for Imlib2

12 messages 2002/04/19

[#38635] Threads creating threads creating threads... — Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>

I have already asked this question in [ruby-talk:19661], but I will ask it

12 messages 2002/04/19

[#38694] Ruby on .NET? — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

I scanned the .net threads here and didn't see whether there is, or is not, an

37 messages 2002/04/19
[#38696] RE: Ruby on .NET? — "repeater" <repeater@...> 2002/04/19

recently found:

[#38839] building extensions-- new vs initialize — "Norman Makoto Su" <normsu@...>

Hi, I'm trying to build a ruby extension in C. While looking at the pickaxe CD

14 messages 2002/04/23

[#38910] Numberic#prev — Sean Chittenden <sean@...>

I do a lot of incrementing and decrementing of values: it'd be nice if

36 messages 2002/04/24

[#39047] A Wild Idea: What do you think? — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi:

16 messages 2002/04/26

[#39122] RE: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>

> > OK, then let's have it in Texas. How about August? Oh, what do you

28 messages 2002/04/26
[#39123] Re: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2002/04/26

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:15:21AM +0900, Morris, Chris wrote:

[#39176] Re: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — Pat Eyler <pate@...> 2002/04/27

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jim Freeze wrote:

[#39177] Re: A Wild Idea: What do you think? — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/04/27

Hi --

[#39228] RubyConf.new(2002) - ideas for agenda — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Ok - so I'm probably jumping the gun here, but hey, what the heck.

27 messages 2002/04/28

[#39394] ncurses, mingw32 — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>

i've been away from ruby for awhile, it was time to dust off the pickaxe book

13 messages 2002/04/30

Re: Ruby on .NET?

From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-04-20 04:21:35 UTC
List: ruby-talk #38703
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 23:50, Ken Peek wrote:
> (Paraphrasing)- The designer of Java: "...I made Java a lot like C++ because
> that is the language that people are used to programming in..."
> 
> (Paraphrasing)- The designers of C#: "...We made Java a lot like C because that
> is the language that people are used to programming in..."
> 
> (Direct Quote)- Ralph Waldo Emerson, in: "Self Reliance": "A foolish consistency
> is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers
> and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
> 
> [Ken Peek]:
> Java was cool-- after all, Sun copied the great works of UCSD Pascal, and the
> P-System, which was VERY cool.  ".NET" (and it's 'C#' language) are 'cool' too--
> after all, Micro$haft is copied the great works of UCSD-Pascal, and Java...
> 
> It is ALSO very 'cool', to blaze your own trail...  Python and Ruby both do this
> very well.
> 
> Why would ANYONE with any REAL TALENT want to copy imitators?

I'm sure this could degenerate into another flame fest, so I'm going to
go lite on this one.  ~,^

I'd simply ask you to note that if a technology is imitated, chances
are, it's good.  C# being similar to Java is a testament to the power of
Java, and Java being based on whatever is a testament to the power of
those.

I know that I *am* more comfortable with C#, Java, and C++ than with a
lot of the "newer" language types, like Ruby or Python, simply because I
have so much background in C.  (7 years.)

Creating a technology that is different from all others simply to not
imitate would be the what programmers with no real talent do.  ~,^

C# is a great language, given it's purpose; that's why the MS
programmers designed it how they did.  A whole new language paradigm
would simply scare away developers, increase the complexity of the
language design, and likely not grant any new functionality to make it
worth the effort.

Sure, like Ruby programmers are into, there are lots of *niftier* things
that could've been done instead of C#, but would there truly have been
an advantage whatsoever?

So far as Python or Ruby being original... well, they both feel a lot
like each other, and in turn feel like a combination of other
languages.  They are imitating parts of languages which probably got the
idea from another language, as well.  ^,^

> 
> 
> 


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