[#66079] gc_sweep(): unknown data type 48 — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...>

15 messages 2003/03/01
[#66082] Re: [BUG] gc_sweep(): unknown data type 48 — nobu.nokada@... 2003/03/01

Hi,

[#66085] Re: [BUG] gc_sweep(): unknown data type 48 — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2003/03/01

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:26:58PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#66088] Anything like Class::DBI from Perl — pw-googlegroups@... (Peter Wilkinson)

We've been doing some work using Class::DBI in Perl which makes access

17 messages 2003/03/01

[#66217] Prolly a simple question — <ghost-no-spam@...>

Sorry if these questions have come up before, but google searching hasn't

20 messages 2003/03/03

[#66245] TCPSocket delay problem — Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...>

Matz,

23 messages 2003/03/04

[#66269] OSCON — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

For those coming to OSCON this year...

18 messages 2003/03/04

[#66315] system command expansion after PTY.spawn — Christian von Mueffling <cvm@...>

Hi!

13 messages 2003/03/05

[#66330] cookies in eruby mod_ruby — Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>

Can someone explain how to set/delete cookies using mod_ruby (eruby)?

13 messages 2003/03/06

[#66332] Russian Ruby resource and Ruby Course — leikind@... (Yuri Leikind)

Hi all,

19 messages 2003/03/06

[#66392] DRB and threads — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>

I wonder if anyone can give me some hints on the interactions between dRuby

22 messages 2003/03/06
[#66417] Re: DRB and threads — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2003/03/07

[#66421] Re: DRB and threads — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/03/07

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:15:29PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:

[#66449] Re: DRB and threads — ahoward <ahoward@...> 2003/03/08

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Brian Candler wrote:

[#66454] Re: DRB and threads — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/03/08

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:38:31AM +0900, ahoward wrote:

[#66440] Solving the 'strange language' documentation problem — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...>

Dear Rubyists,

18 messages 2003/03/07

[#66466] I'm to give short talk on ruby at work, anybody have material/outlines they can donate/ — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

10 messages 2003/03/08

[#66469] What character sets are available in Ruby ? — peterjohannsen@... (pj)

There is a Ruby FAQ which I read that said that Ruby only supports

17 messages 2003/03/08

[#66522] Thinking of learning Ruby — "anonimous" <n.thomp@...>

I have abour 3 or 4 years experience with Linux, and about 2 years

45 messages 2003/03/10

[#66530] Protocols — "Ray Capozzi" <Ray_Capozzi@...>

Is there a preferred set of ruby libraries for client/server solutions? As

26 messages 2003/03/10
[#66533] Re: Protocols — "MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...> 2003/03/10

[#66548] Re: Protocols — <jbritt@...> 2003/03/10

> "Ray Capozzi" <Ray_Capozzi@hotmail.com> wrote in message

[#66633] Threads and DRb — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I changed the title here because this is not

16 messages 2003/03/10

[#66805] Ruby newbie uninstall question? — "Colin Coates" <colin@...>

Hello Everyone,

12 messages 2003/03/12

[#66850] Ruby / Eiffel ? — <cailloux@...>

Hello evry body

23 messages 2003/03/13

[#66906] Syck 0.08 -- Next-generation of YAML.rb — why the lucky stiff <yaml-core@...>

citizens,

21 messages 2003/03/14
[#66931] Re: [ANN] Syck 0.08 -- Next-generation of YAML.rb — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2003/03/14

Works great under OS X and Ruby 1.8!

[#66927] dynamically create a method — Rudolf Polzer <abuse@...>

Is there a possiblilty to dynamically create a method, like this?

14 messages 2003/03/14

[#66974] The onion truck strikes again ... Announcing rake — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>

Ok, let me state from the beginning that I never intended to write this

25 messages 2003/03/15

[#67013] ANN: vcard 0.1 - a vCard decoding library — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=vcard

10 messages 2003/03/15

[#67071] How do I get irb to use readline, (with OS X)? — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>

I'm sure I saw something about this somewhere, but I've been searching,

12 messages 2003/03/16

[#67074] ANN: Madeleine 0.1 — Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>

28 messages 2003/03/16
[#67109] Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/03/17

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:00:35AM +0900, Anders Bengtsson wrote:

[#67115] Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1 — Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...> 2003/03/17

--- Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> skrev:

[#67124] Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/03/17

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:37:56PM +0900, Anders Bengtsson wrote:

[#67128] Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1 — Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...> 2003/03/17

--- Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:

[#67222] OT: XML too hard (YAML opportunity?) — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

On /. today there is a discussion about a weblog entry by an XML

27 messages 2003/03/18
[#67239] Re: XML too hard (YAML opportunity?) — <jbritt@...> 2003/03/19

> On /. today there is a discussion about a weblog entry by an XML

[#67302] Frequency of announcements — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...>

Hi!

14 messages 2003/03/19

[#67304] Strong advantages over Python — Greg McIntyre <greg@...>

Hi lovely Ruby people,

111 messages 2003/03/20
[#67408] Re: Strong advantages over Python — Greg McIntyre <greg@...> 2003/03/21

Good list. Amalgamated with http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/whats.html, it

[#67416] Re: Strong advantages over Python — Paul Prescod <paul@...> 2003/03/21

Greg McIntyre wrote:

[#67663] Ruby lecture slides (was Strong advantages over Python) — Greg McIntyre <greg@...> 2003/03/23

Thanks to all of you who answered and cleared up some of my perceptions

[#67675] Re: Ruby lecture slides (was Strong advantages over Python) — Paul Prescod <paul@...> 2003/03/23

Greg McIntyre wrote:

[#67685] Re: Ruby lecture slides (was Strong advantages over Python) — Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...> 2003/03/24

[#67697] Re: Ruby lecture slides (was Strong advantages over Python) — Greg McIntyre <greg@...> 2003/03/24

Mark Wilson <mwilson13@cox.net> wrote:

[#67346] class level Exception handling — Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@...>

Hi

12 messages 2003/03/20

[#67366] Newbie question: 9/5=1 ? — Thomas Jollans <nospam@...>

while learning ruby i wanted to program a simple fahrenheit to celsius

16 messages 2003/03/20

[#67387] Ruby tutorial download — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Someone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,

13 messages 2003/03/20

[#67415] Proposal: new operator: '<-' (for assignments) — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

15 messages 2003/03/21

[#67446] Ruby & LaTeX — Walter Cazzola <cazzola@...>

Dear Ruby Experts,

19 messages 2003/03/21

[#67514] Rake problem? — manfred.lotz@... (Manfred)

Hi,

15 messages 2003/03/21

[#67546] Expression results — debitsch@... (Rasmus)

Hello,

22 messages 2003/03/21
[#67549] Re: Expression results — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...> 2003/03/21

----- Original Message -----

[#67634] exiting a loop — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hello,

31 messages 2003/03/23

[#67711] Iterate over two lists in parallel — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

On Monday, March 24, 2003, 1:54:53 PM, Julian wrote:

33 messages 2003/03/24

[#67915] Conditionally make a method private? — Jeremy <thinker5555@...>

Hello again!

13 messages 2003/03/26

[#67961] What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas? — sdieselil@... (sdieselil)

See subject.

22 messages 2003/03/26
[#67966] Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas? — "Chris Pine" <nemo@...> 2003/03/26

As was mentioned, Ruby has lambdas, but they are commonly called "procs".

[#67967] Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas? — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2003/03/26

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:50:04AM +0900, Chris Pine wrote:

[#67975] Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas? — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2003/03/26

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:01:25AM +0900, Mauricio Fern疣dez wrote:

[#67983] Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas? — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2003/03/26

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:20:48AM +0900, Paul Brannan wrote:

[#67986] Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas? — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2003/03/26

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:40:40AM +0900, Mauricio Fern疣dez wrote:

[#68082] Array question — walter@...

Any one know why Array.join can't take a code block and join that

28 messages 2003/03/27

[#68198] Announce: RHDL-0.4.2 (Ruby HDL) an agile HDL — ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)

RHDL 0.4.2 is now available at:

12 messages 2003/03/29

[#68199] Ruby 1.6.8 vs Ruby 1.8.0 preview 2 - benchmarks — djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)

Hi all,

11 messages 2003/03/29

[#68201] Weighted random selection -- how would you do this? — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Here's a little question for you.

24 messages 2003/03/29

[#68254] Saving code written during an irb session — Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>

OK, so I admit: I'm stupid. How do I save the code I've generated

19 messages 2003/03/30

[#68271] Hard coded newline characters — David King Landrith <dave@...>

There are a surprising number of ruby source files that have newline

24 messages 2003/03/30
[#68286] Re: Hard coded newline characters — nobu.nokada@... 2003/03/31

Hi,

[#68328] Re: Hard coded newline characters — David King Landrith <dave@...> 2003/03/31

On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 08:06 PM, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

[#68318] syntax highlighting problem in vim — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...>

Hi!

16 messages 2003/03/31
[#68325] Re: syntax highlighting problem in vim — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...> 2003/03/31

Negative. It is correct for me. How is it displayed at you?

Re: Thinking of learning Ruby

From: "anonimous" <n.thomp@...>
Date: 2003-03-10 02:03:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #66539
"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:b4gn830226o@enews1.newsguy.com...
> In article <b4gklc$o21$1@nntp-stjh-01-01.rogers.nf.net>,
> anonimous <n.thomp@roadrunner.nf.net> wrote:
> >I have abour 3 or 4 years experience with Linux, and about 2 years
> >experience with Java, recently though I decided to quit learning Java
> >because I found it rather slow and lacking, the biggest problem is that
Sun
> >Microsystems made to many libraries for some functions and not enough for
> >other functions, they also have quite a few bugs that are noticable when
one
> >tries to apply custom effects to GUI's such as setting colours with
> >.setBackground() and .setForeground() forsetting the colours. I am now
> >looking for one or two alternative programming languages to replace Java,
I
> >am mostly interested in C, C++, Ruby, Python and Perl. What I would like
to
> >know is which one would be better off in your opinion(s), one of the
things
> >I concider important in a programming language is weather or not its good
> >enough to get me a job in programming. I look forward to your reply(s)
:-)
> >
>
> Welcome,
>
> Of course we're pretty biased toward Ruby being your next programming
> language ;-)
>
> I think you'll find Ruby's libraries a lot more compact than Java's.
> Also, you'll generally find that you can do the same program in Ruby with
> about 1/2 to 1/3 of the lines as the equivlient Java program (with no hit
> to readability as you would have in Perl).

Sounds good :-)

>
> Now as to your point about which language to learn in order to find a job
> in programming:
> 1) Right now there aren't many jobs in programming and there are lots of
> _very_ experienced folks out there who know several of the languages you
> list (quite well) and are not finding work.... so in the short term, don't
> expect to find a job in programming unless you've got several years of
> experience - you're competing against folks who have lots of experience.
> 2) After reading and considering #1, learn C++ - when the job market does
> eventually return (someyear - a year ago I said "In a year", now I make no
> predictions other than it definately won't be anytime this year.)  Knowing
> C++ still gets you into the most number of places.

Althoug getting a job in programming is a concern of mine, I think I'd still
be
able to find another line of work. I am however very interested in being a
volunteer developer for a Linux distribution, it would certainly help me
learn
the programming language.

> 3) Now, after considering #2, forget about which programming language will
> get you a job and think about which programming language will cause you to
> learn something about the practice of programming.  I would suggest that
> Ruby is an excellent choice for this. (and one can argue that you've got
> plenty of time to do this)  You'll definately learn object oriented
> programming with Ruby and it will definately have a different flavor than
> OO programming you've dont in Java because Ruby isn't statically typed.
> OO programming in Ruby 'feels' much different than it does in C++ or Java
> and it's a very positive feeling, IMHO.  [That's not to say that there are
> no Ruby jobs out there, but the number of jobs that list Ruby as a
> requirement is still very small.  However, I've found Ruby in lots of
> places where I didn't expect to find it - Ruby is being snuk in the
> backdoor at lots of places kind of like Perl was 8-10 years ago.]
>
> You mention that Java is slow.  I'm assuming you mean that programs
> written in Java are slow to execute.  You definately won't find Ruby
> faster than Java for most things.  However, it's quite easy to write
> extentions for Ruby in C/C++ (another reason to learn C/C++) such that you
> use C/C++ for speed critical parts of your code and Ruby for the parts you
> want ot develop quickly.

The problem with java is that their programs are slow to execute, while it
is
running, speed isn't of to much importance as long as it doesn't consume to
much
ram, I'd like my programs to be run on slower computers as well as faster
ones
and Java programs are really bad for that kind of stuff.

>
> Phil



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