From: Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...>
Date: 2003-03-09T09:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm to give short talk on ruby at work, anybody have material/outlines they can donate/

On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:20 pm, Sam Roberts wrote:
> 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?

Skip the syntax review.  The interesting things about Ruby are not captured by 
the syntax, IMHO.  Talk about the advantages of a true OO language, dynamic 
class extensions, and things of that sort.  Some interesting code samples are 
fine.  Anyone who would understand the syntax presentation will be able to 
read the ruby code sufficiently to understand it.  For others, a syntax 
presentation would be too dry and wouldn't convey why, indeed, ruby is in 
fact "cool".

>
> Thanks,
> Sam

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