From: jeepcreep Date: 2003-03-11T04:31:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Thinking of learning Ruby --0-474285592-1047324682=:54886 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Just to take you a little off subject for a moment: I'm also a newby. I went to your site and installed Ruby (Windows version). On the comand line level it works just fine. Now to create a program. Therein lies my problem. At home I am running LINUX, so I don't expect a problem (I'll install the LINUX version and use #!). At work, though, I'm not that lucky. I am running on an XP platform. I can't use #! here so how do I define the directory where my .rb modules will be run from? Daniel Carrera wrote:> 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. Most of Linux/OSS is written in C, in the Unix tradition. KDE is an exception, it is mostly C++. C is easier to learn than C++, and to some degree it is a subset of C++. I would suggest you learn Ruby first, then C then (possibly) C++. In my case I've never had a compelling reason to learn C++. I only know C. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 --0-474285592-1047324682=:54886 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Just to take you a little off subject for a moment:

I'm also a newby. I went to your site and installed Ruby (Windows version). On the comand line level it works just fine. Now to create a program. Therein lies my problem. At home I am running LINUX, so I don't expect a problem (I'll install the LINUX version and use #!). At work, though, I'm not that lucky. I am running on an XP platform. I can't use #! here so how do I define the directory where my .rb modules will be run from?

 Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote:

> 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.

Most of Linux/OSS is written in C, in the Unix tradition. KDE is an
exception, it is mostly C++.

C is easier to learn than C++, and to some degree it is a subset of
C++.

I would suggest you learn Ruby first, then C then (possibly) C++. In
my case I've never had a compelling reason to learn C++. I only know
C.

--
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
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