From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-02-27T01:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing myself and my interest in ruby

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Glenn M. Lewis wrote:

> Hi Larry!  Thanks for the introduction and welcome!
> Perl was my favorite language for over a decade, with C and then later C++ being
> the languages I developed in for runtime speed and for work requirements.
> 
> About three years ago I ran across an article in Dr. Dobb's Journal that immediately
> hooked me on Ruby, and I have not turned back to Perl since that time.
> 
> Using SWIG (http://www.swig.org/), I have developed runtime-critical algorithms in
> C++ and SWIG'd the interface so that I can totally access and control them from Ruby.
> 
> And just this last month, I have come across a compiled language that I believe will
> completely replace C and C++ for me: The D Language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/).
> It even has a SWIG module for it so that I can easily access D from Ruby!
> 
> Now if I could only get our programmers at work to all switch from Perl and Tcl to Ruby
> and from C++ to D !!!

wow - D looks very cool indeed.  thanks for the pointer.

-a

> 
> -- Glenn
> 
> Larry Felton Johnson wrote:
> > This is just a note introducing myself to the list, and
> > explaining what I hope to get from the list.
> > 
> > I'm a software systems engineer at Georgia State University.
> > That basically translates to Unix Systems Administrator, though
> > my specialty is programming systems utilities.  We run Solaris.
> > 
> > Most of my scripts are written in perl, I have one pretty large
> > scale project I wrote and maintain in php, and for the forseeable
> > future I'll probably still be primarily working in perl (most of
> > the people in our group know at least a little perl, so if I'm
> > not available the code is not inaccessable to my workgroup).
> > 
> > About a year ago I began looking at ruby, really liked it.  It seemed
> > clean, easy to read, and had all the usual capabilities which attracted
> > me to perl to begin with.  I didn't pursue it at the time because perl 
> > was adequate for my needs.  About two weeks ago I started dabbling in ruby
> > again, and have decided to write those utilities not likely to be 
> > maintained by anyone else (in other words scripts for my own use)
> > in ruby so I'll get a more rounded experience in the language.
> > 
> > The typical script I'll be writing is the usual administrators utility
> > where one opens a file (including program output in that category) loops
> > through the file a line at a time doing regex matches, and does appropriate
> > stuff based on those matches.
> > 
> > I look forward to browsing this list and asking questions from time to
> > time.  ruby strikes me as a very good scripting language.
> > 
> > Larry 
> > 
> > 
> 

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