From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T08:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Repository for Ruby presentations (was: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?)


> this makes me think - there is a lot of presentaion material out there
> praising ruby (matz's slides, pragmatic programmer stuff, personal
> presentations).  what about pooling resources and putting together
something
> __really__ slick and professional and putting it up on ruby-lang for
people to
> use?  postgresql is attempting to do this... seems like a good idea.
if only
> we could distill _why's book... ;-)

Oh please yes! I am actually giving a presentation on Ruby to my
department next week. I am currently working on it, and hope to post it
to RubyGarden when it's done (assuming I can attach files, no other
place to host it :(.

Currently, it's a rehash of slides by matz about the language desing
(taken shamelessly from http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/). They
mostly concentrate on the background and design of the language (i.e.
how the language was designed to be easy on the brain and fun to work
with). I'll use as much as I can get away with, and fill up stuff on
"actual features" of the language from what I know.

I'll gladly share / steal from anyone who has done a better job.