From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T08:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Repository for Ruby presentations (was: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?)

Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:
>
> > 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.

I'm setting something up for this tonight, and your contribution would be
welcome. Stay tuned.

Curt