From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T09:09:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Short Presentation on Ruby

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From: "Jon Dowland" <jon@frag.ord.web-hosting.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:34 AM
Subject: Short Presentation on Ruby


> I will be doing a short presentation on the ruby language for the
> Computer Society at Durham University.
>
> This talk is aimed at people who are not professional programmers for the
> most part, and will most likely have some experience with perl. A few
> people may have experience with python also. For this reason, the talk
> isn't going to be in much depth.
>
> I am thinking that my talk will briefly highlight what ruby is, why you
> may choose to use it as appose to PHP/perl/python/java; and I expect a
> little about mod_ruby, eruby, etc. (web applications)
>
> My question is, do you think I should broach any other aspect of ruby
> during this talk? Is there one thing about ruby that you would think is
> important enough to mention in a light, perhaps 10 minute long talk?

My top three are: iterators, "everthing's an object", and open classes.

Hal