From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T09:14:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning Ruby, was a C geek...

> As I'm learning Ruby, I've decided to write a few programs in 
> Ruby to get a feel for the language.

Welcome aboard! 

> 
> I've been a C programmer for a long time.  As such, I worry 
> that I'm thinking too much like a C programmer, and not like 
> a Ruby programmer...

You might be interested in a little project I've been working on -
translating the examples from Tim Jones' "AI Application Programming" from C
into Ruby.  Here's an overview:

http://ai-app-prog.rubyforge.org/ 

and there are some notes on various translation pitfalls here:

http://ai-app-prog.rubyforge.org/#notes

Yours,

Tom