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OK Internet, I concede

I'm going to learn Ruby. My copy of The Ruby Programming Language arrives today.

Posted on Apr. 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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(Anonymous)

l'm learning ruby too :))

i'm also start lerning ruby today :))
Posted on Apr. 21st, 2008 05:39 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]dasch.myopenid.com

You won't regret it!

Seriously, it's digital kool-aid!
Posted on Apr. 21st, 2008 05:44 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]https://login.launchpad.net/+id/BHDGT7f

No!!!!!

Python loves you.
Posted on Apr. 21st, 2008 06:18 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Please do not

They have no sense of direction. Take a look at the standard libs. It's a horrible mess, with some of The most crucial things missing, and with some entirely useless junk often instead. Not to mention the documentation is plain CCCP...

I have always wanted to like Ruby, but it's one of the most frustrating and plain crappy languages to program in the long run, especially if you have high demands.
Posted on Apr. 21st, 2008 06:27 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]cgwalters

Re: Please do not

Well, standard libraries are hard. My plan is to learn using JRuby, which has the advantage that you can access all of the Java core libraries, many of which are well designed.

We'll see, it should be fun to learn a new language anyways.
Posted on Apr. 21st, 2008 06:52 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Re: Please do not

"but it's one of the most frustrating and plain crappy languages to program in the long run, especially if you have high demands."

Like what "high demands" exactly? PHP is a crap design language but people use it, so I am curious what "high demands" you refer to.
I mean all the folks that use ruby since years are proof that they have no "high demand" considering your logic is valid, right?
Makes not much sense to me.

Or maybe it is actually you that is wrong here? People should judge on their own anyway.
Posted on Apr. 22nd, 2008 03:33 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]http://claimid.com/ashcrow

Good Choice

Good! It's a great language to add to your list of known languages. Python still is the language that gets things done for me, but ruby is a great replacement for my old perl stuff.
Posted on Apr. 22nd, 2008 12:50 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]fragglet

hooray!

Congrats.
Posted on Apr. 22nd, 2008 08:48 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Also planning to learn Ruby this week.

I am also planning to learn Ruby this week. I already have setup gedit almost like this:

http://grigio.org/pimp_my_gedit_was_textmate_linux

But I am thinking about give Netbeans a shot too. I have found a nice website for Ruby learning and I am going to use it to learn Ruby.

http://rubylearning.com/
Posted on Apr. 22nd, 2008 07:48 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Does this mean that the hotwire will be rewritten in ruby ? :)
Posted on Apr. 24th, 2008 12:47 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]cgwalters

Well no...but I do believe in a multi-language world, and my plan has always been for Hotwire to support that. I have some ideas for how to make that happen and have been working on a new small project for prototyping it out.
Posted on Apr. 24th, 2008 01:53 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

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