[prog] Ruby?

[Laurel Fan]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:14:15 +1100, Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au> wrote:
> I am interested in the way that it is a totally OO programming language,
> and its different approach to class and types.  It seems like a whole
> new way of thinking about objects classes and types. It has automatic
> garbage collection which I think is essential these days. (I know thats
> a small thing to make a big deal about!)

I went to a talk on it by Dave Thomas, one of the authors of Programming Ruby
(http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/).  The duck typing concept is
especially interesting, since I used that concept in a toy programming language
I wrote a couple years ago.  I also like how there are some concepts pulled
in from functional programming.  I think functional programming concepts 
have a role to play in OO, and the way this was hacked in to C++ STL is just
way too cumbersome to use.

> Do you have any plans or hopes in trying to learn Ruby?  That is what is
> behind you question?

I'm planning to try to learn it, and I was wondering if there might be
some interest
in a Ruby study group (not necessarily a class, since a class would
imply that there
would be a teacher with some knowledge about it, so I wouldn't be it).

-- 
Laurel Fan
http://dreadnought.gorgorg.org