Sep 10
Sam Ruby gave a keynote at FOSSSL on The Case for Dynamic Languages.
He details the past to the present, and then shows why he thinks this is all good :)
He happens to use Ruby as the scripting language ;)
A lot of the ideas come from Jim Weirich’s 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby, which is something everyone should read.
He hits the nail on the head with items that make me cringe to be without elsewhere.
It is the combination of all of these items that makes Ruby elegant in my book.
September 12th, 2005 at 3:51 am
Dion,
Jim Weirich’s presentation has really hooked me, I’ve got to learn Ruby. What book would you recommend? One I found on Amazon was 800 pages, which seems a bit large to me. What I’d like is a Kernighan and Ritchie, or the second edition of Stroustrup’s C++ book.
Reading Jim’s presentation made me wonder if anyone has implemented Ruby in Ruby. Rather like a Lisp interpreter written in Lisp. Which leads me back to wondering if there is Ruby equivalent of Abelsson and Sussman’s book on Scheme.