[#6363] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — ts <decoux@...>

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

17 messages 2000/11/14
[#6367] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2000/11/14

Hello again --

[#6582] best way to interleaf arrays? — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

15 messages 2000/11/26

[#6646] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Ross asked something about widely known and largely ignored language (on

23 messages 2000/11/29
[#6652] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn) 2000/11/29

aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com (Aleksi Niemel) wrote in

[#6723] Re: Array Intersect (&) question — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2000/12/01

> >Use a hash. Here's code to do both and more. It assumes that

[#6656] printing/accessing arrays and hashes — raja@... (Raja S.)

I'm coming to Ruby with a Python & Common Lisp background.

24 messages 2000/11/30

[ruby-talk:6535] Re: Ruby vs. UML ?

From: rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn)
Date: 2000-11-22 23:40:01 UTC
List: ruby-talk #6535
Dave@Thomases.com (Dave Thomas) wrote in
<m2vgtgj63y.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com>: 
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>Along come practices such as eXtreme Programming. They say that the
>best communication is working code, and minimize up-front work in
>favor of getting something in front of the end user. We think that's
>wonderful: we've been advocating tracer-bullet and prototyping
>approaches to describing systems for a long time.
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>Now what if you could reduce the gap even further. Rather than use
>(say) Java, and get 10% of the overall work done in a 2 week
>iteration, what if you could use Ruby, and get 50%, or 100%. Wouldn't
>that be better?  So, we're investigating how Ruby could be used as a
>way of expressing a requirement in running code.
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Okay, so it's kind of XP to the eXtreme ;-)
I guess I'll have to pick up an XP book. I've been avoiding them because 
I'm not into the whole pair programming thing, but I do love (and use) the 
XUnit testing stuff.

I guess this is stuff for your next book? I'm hoping it'll be something 
like _Pragmatic Programming with Ruby_?

P.S. A friend of mine, who happens to be named Ruby, saw my copy of 
_Programming Ruby_ the other day. She gave me a funny look and said "What 
is that, a novel about joining a cult?"
-- 
Ross Mohn
rpmohn@panix.com

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