From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2013-06-19T17:42:18+09:00
Subject: Re: getting the most out of Ruby

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Brandon Weaver <keystonelemur@gmail.com>wrote:

> The biggest jumping point for me is when I stopped trying to program Ruby
> like C# and started programming Ruby like Ruby.
>
:-)

>  Coming from C land you have tendencies towards a lot of imperative
> techniques, and Ruby is not solely imperative. Learning the functional side
> of Ruby is essential to graduate into advanced topics.
>
I'd be careful labeling Ruby as "functional".  The only "functional" about
Ruby is that with lambda you can have anonymous functions which you can
pass around.  The core feature of funct

Kind regards

robert

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_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Brandon Weaver <span dir=3D"ltr">&=
lt;<a href=3D"mailto:keystonelemur@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">keystonelem=
ur@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p dir=3D"ltr">Coming from C land you have tendencies towards a lot of impe=
rative techniques, and Ruby is not solely imperative. Learning the function=
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<div>=A0</div></div>Kind regards</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br></div>=
<div class=3D"gmail_extra">robert<br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br>re=
member.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end<br><a href=3D"http://blo=
g.rubybestpractices.com/">http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/</a>
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