From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-03-09T08:27:55+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm to give short talk on ruby at work, anybody have material/outlines they can donate/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Roberts" <sroberts@uniserve.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 5:20 PM
Subject: I'm to give short talk on ruby at work, anybody have
material/outlines they can donate/


> I'm not expected to be a ruby expert, its just part of a series of
> "here's a cool thing, this is what I know so far" talks. I'm planning on
> talking about
>
> - why I started to be interested in ruby
> - quick overview of the lang, some comparisons to perl and lisp
> - what kind of things I'm doing
>
> Just 30 min and some questions.
>
> Anybody done something like  this before and has some suggestions? A 10
> minute syntax review outline?

You might take a look at my talk "Ruby for Perl
Programmers" at http://rubyhacker.com -- maybe
you can get some ideas from it.

Cheers,
Hal