[#89088] More questions about =~ — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)

irb(main):006:1* class String

14 messages 2004/01/01

[#89119] Loop/Iterator questions — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno)

1) Is there anything like Perl's continue block available? This is

15 messages 2004/01/02

[#89189] Best way to send mail in ruby — Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2004/01/03

[#89193] Simple Ruby DB apps/programs ... — Useko Netsumi <usenets@...>

I was wondering if there are some example of small Ruby(1.8.1) Database

14 messages 2004/01/03

[#89261] class Time doesn't pass year 2038? — Jean-Baptiste <temuphaey0@...>

15 messages 2004/01/05

[#89339] Compression (besides Huffman) and Ruby — "Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@...>

Hi!

14 messages 2004/01/07

[#89367] Database applications and OOness — Tim Bates <tim@...>

People,

63 messages 2004/01/07
[#89455] Re: Database applications and OOness — "dhtapp" <dhtapp@...> 2004/01/08

I've been watching this thread with a great deal of interest. I'm

[#89456] block delimiting — Pete Yadlowsky <pmy@...> 2004/01/08

[#89465] Re: block delimiting — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2004/01/08

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 04:33:15 +0900, Pete y wrote:

[#89453] ruby 1.8.1 windows installer — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...>

Hi!

26 messages 2004/01/08
[#89716] Re: ruby 1.8.1 windows installer — intc_ctor@... (Phil Tomson) 2004/01/12

>

[#89860] Re: ruby 1.8.1 windows installer — Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@...> 2004/01/14

> Since the first edition of the Pickaxe book didn't exactly fly off the

[#89460] Re: block delimiting — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>

21 messages 2004/01/08

[#89590] regex to NOT match? — Ruby Baby <ruby@...>

Sorry it seems like the smallest thing, but I'm stuck on this.

16 messages 2004/01/10

[#89611] Converting a string to an array of tokens — "John W. Long" <ws@...>

Is there a fast way to convert a string into a list of tokens?

17 messages 2004/01/11

[#89672] faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>

1. Is there a way in Ruby to speed up 32bit integer arithmetics (only

43 messages 2004/01/12
[#89686] Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number — Ara.T.Howard@... 2004/01/12

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, David Garamond wrote:

[#89709] Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number — Charles Mills <boson@...> 2004/01/12

What abouts Rubys design would make integer arithmetic slower than integer

[#89710] Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2004/01/12

[#89711] Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number — Charles Mills <boson@...> 2004/01/12

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#89718] Getting the tail of a list? — Carsten Eckelmann <careck@...42.com>

Hi everybody,

19 messages 2004/01/12

[#89796] Ruby OS mentioned on /. — intc_ctor@... (Phil Tomson)

http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/01/13/0123250.shtml?tid=185&tid=190

20 messages 2004/01/13
[#89805] Re: Ruby OS mentioned on /. — Paul William <maillist@...> 2004/01/13

./ normally does not have vaporware... are a bunch of ruby (a very high

[#89806] Re: Ruby OS mentioned on /. — "Zach Dennis" <zdennis@...> 2004/01/13

Somehow i have this strange feeling that not all ruby peeps are strictly

[#89975] drb, firewall, ssh tunneling, and yield — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>

14 messages 2004/01/16
[#89976] Re: drb, firewall, ssh tunneling, and yield — Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...> 2004/01/16

On Jan 15, 2004, at 19:10, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

[#90013] Fighting Ruby's bad fame — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hi gurus and nubys,

42 messages 2004/01/16
[#90097] Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) 2004/01/18

In article <af53b0ba.0401171921.7cf9b9b7@posting.google.com>,

[#90023] Installing a program Unix-like — Malte Milatz <malteDELETETHIS@...>

Users of Linux, FreeBSD etc. are used to downloading an archive,

13 messages 2004/01/16

[#90077] long expression syntax — rick.hu@... (Rick Hu)

why do I get a syntax error for

13 messages 2004/01/17

[#90086] is Ruby the right language for these projects? — Ruby Baby <ruby@...>

Please forgive my self-centered question. I've been learning all about Ruby

16 messages 2004/01/18

[#90139] segfaults on mandrake... — Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2004/01/18

[#90200] regex help — Chris Morris <chrismo@...>

I need a re such that:

18 messages 2004/01/19

[#90228] Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)

In article <mailman.493.1074484056.12720.python-list@python.org>,

36 messages 2004/01/20
[#90292] Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby — Ville Vainio <ville.spamstermeister.vainio@...> 2004/01/20

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> writes:

[#90294] Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby — "Zach Dennis" <zdennis@...> 2004/01/20

Ville>Though "sending messages" to int literals is a syntax error.

[#90332] Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby — GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno) 2004/01/21

"Zach Dennis" <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote in message news:<AKEKIKLMCFIHPEAHKAAICEOHHFAA.zdennis@mktec.com>...

[#90333] Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby — Gregory Millam <walker@...> 2004/01/21

Received: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:59:59 +0900

[#90317] Re: Proposal for programming language of the year — "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@...>

I think one of the main points of learning a new language each year is that

18 messages 2004/01/21

[#90354] Modules as namespace — gm@... (George Moschovitis)

Hello everyone,

16 messages 2004/01/21

[#90405] Very basic Ruby docs/books/tutorial? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2004/01/22

[#90472] Ruby/Extensions v0.3 released — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

A new version of Ruby/Extensions, a suite of useful methods added to

17 messages 2004/01/23

[#90505] Why is to_a going to be obsolete? — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...>

I find it immensely useful when dealing with arrays to be able to

25 messages 2004/01/23
[#90507] Re: Why is to_a going to be obsolete? — Gennady <gfb@...> 2004/01/23

Patrick Bennett wrote:

[#90510] Re: Why is to_a going to be obsolete? — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...> 2004/01/23

Hmmm, thanks, but it's a bit 'non-obvious' to casual Ruby programmers

[#90512] Re: Why is to_a going to be obsolete? — Gennady <gfb@...> 2004/01/23

[#90524] Re: Why is to_a going to be obsolete? — "T. Onoma" <transami@...> 2004/01/23

On Friday 23 January 2004 06:43 pm, Gennady wrote:

[#90598] perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature — xah@... (Xah Lee)

Just bumped into another irresponsibility in perl.

19 messages 2004/01/25

[#90667] ruby-math and "why is ** not abelian?" — vanjac12@... (Van Jacques)

I was reading the 1st thread in the ruby-math discussion at

11 messages 2004/01/26

[#90750] choosing ruby? — Piergiuliano Bossi <p_bossi_AGAINST_SPAM@...>

We are on the way to start a new project, a web application with a bunch

20 messages 2004/01/27

[#90756] Editor — Safran von Twesla <me@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2004/01/27

[#90770] newbee question about "missing" hash methods +, += and << — benny <linux@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2004/01/27

[#90913] vimrc for Ruby or rubytidy — Theodore Knab <tjk@...>

Does someone have a '.vimrc' file they will share

17 messages 2004/01/29
[#90914] Re: vimrc for Ruby or rubytidy — "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@...> 2004/01/29

> Does someone have a '.vimrc' file they will share

[#90971] time comparison — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>

i want to parse and trim a log file. the date format log file looks like:

13 messages 2004/01/29

[#91005] Ruby and Perl Integration — "John W. Long" <ws@...>

All this talk about RJNI has gotten me thinking. Has anyone attempted to

17 messages 2004/01/30
[#91007] Re: Ruby and Perl Integration — Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...> 2004/01/30

--- "John W. Long" <ws@johnwlong.com> wrote:

[#91056] principle of most suprise — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>

gah, ruby is doing it to me again:

31 messages 2004/01/30

[#91071] Accesing to private attributes — "Imobach =?iso-8859-15?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?=" <imodev@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2004/01/30

[#91088] flip flop operator and assignment — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)

I'm working on the pattern matching section for

25 messages 2004/01/31

[#91089] No difference between .. and ... flip/flop operators? — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)

50 messages 2004/01/31

[#91099] Ruby 1.8.1 REXML performance — Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>

I have a script that uses REXML to stream parse an XML file and load a

27 messages 2004/01/31

[#91104] graphics lib? — Alwin Blok <alwinblok@...>

Hello,

38 messages 2004/01/31
[#91262] Re: graphics lib? — Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...> 2004/02/02

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:18:50 -0600, Charles Comstock wrote:

[#91362] Re: graphics lib? — Charles Comstock <cc1@...> 2004/02/03

Simon Strandgaard wrote:

Re: Ruby general question

From: Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Date: 2004-01-03 14:53:48 UTC
List: ruby-talk #89179
> Greg Brondo wrote:
> > Ok.  I'm sold on Ruby (it really is great).  I have a question though:  Why
> > do more large applications (like LimeWire for instance) seem to be written
> > in Java these days instead of Ruby or one of the other scripting languages
> > (insert favorite here).  I've written in Java and it seems more of a bear to
> > me than anything else.  Ruby is much, much quicker for "getting the job
> > done".
> 
> I think it's because of the lack of an obvious choice for a GUI toolkit.
> Combined maybe with the problems, real or imagined, of making a easily
> installed and easily launched application in Ruby.
> 
> /Anders

Both are agreed.

Here I write my opinions, based on a few months ruby programming (the
code now reached the 5000 lines), and c++ compiled language background.

At the same time while I love the scripting languages' freedom, I miss
the (sometimes quite sophisticated) compile-time error checkings of the
compiled languages. At least a syntax checker, warnings for coding style
(e.g. undefined (nil-initialized) object variables, possible not
existing locals, etc.)? There are mistyped variables in my code written
a few days ago, just because it didn't run yet.

I miss a usable debugger. I.e. what I can use in a event-driven GUI
program, and do not slow down the program with 2 magnitudes.

Another problem is the documentation. While ruby stands quite good in
this field, many libraries are not (e.g., dbi), and I cannot keep with
the changes (for example, I tried to search where it is written that I
can break out from iterators with break, and didn't find it easily).
OTOH, if I report a bug here, two (OK, one :) days later it is fixed,
and it is good, and do not care about whether is it documented or not.
:)

Maybe the lack of an IDE is a problem, although I do not prefer them
even in c++ (I do not program in java). Anyway, a stable, usable class
browser would be good...

Maybe I just didn't found the way, but it is hard to express the public
interface of my classes/modules, as there is no separate class
declaration. Also, I couldn't get into rd; I feel it clumsy and a bit
featureless. IMHO instead of figuring out and coding a new code
documentation system, we should have been use an existing (e.g.
Doxygen), and write only the parser for ruby language.

Most of these arguments are not an issue for small programs. I never
will understand why people write a few hundreds (thousands) lines of
C-Delphi-C++ code to make some data conversion, string processing etc.
instead of writing 10-20 lines of ruby (OK, tcl, perl, python, or even
awk or bash) code. OTOH, it is possible that I just didn't get into
coding big programs in scripting languages.

Ferenc


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