From: Dave@...
Date: 2003-05-08T09:00:52+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 05/08/2003

   A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
   this week by Bruce Williams.

   ANNOUNCEMENTS
   =============

   www.ruby-lang.org article submitter
          The assistance of an article submitter for the English portion
          of ruby-lang.org has been requested by Matz.

   xml-simple v1.0.0
          Maik Schmidt has released v1.0.0 of xml-simple; xml-simple
          offers an easy API to maintain XML (especially configuration
          files) and was heavily inspired by Grant McLean's Perl module
          XML::Simple. This release offers a lot of new features and
          supports nearly all options of the current Perl version, only
          lacking SAX2 support and the so-called 'strict mode.'

          Check out xml-simple([1]).

   INTERESTING THREADS
   ===================

   Why is PHP so popular? What can we learn from the PHP camp?
          Phil Tomson asked "What can we learn from PHP's rapid rise to
          success?" What resulted was a lengthy discussion touching on
          Apache integration, documentation, standard library, marketing,
          and everyone's favorite programming language metaphor...
          Mexican restaurants.

   Pass-by reference VS encapsulation
          Simon Vandemoortele and several others discuss the merits of
          various approaches to an addressbook example in this popular
          thread.

References

   1. http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=xml-simple