[ADV] Pushed a new beta of PickAxe 3

[Dave Thomas]

I've just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
more classes and something like 200 new methods. A boatload of the
existing methods have changes too, from additional calling sequences
to new defaults.

Enjoy


Dave

 

[markonlinux]

I've just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference  
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6  
more classes and something like 200 new methods. A boatload of the  
existing methods have changes too, from additional calling sequences  
to new defaults.

Enjoy

Dave

Well you better get cracking then!
Only kidding ;-)

cheers,

 

[Dave Thomas]

Well you better get cracking then!
Only kidding ;-)

Already did--all those changes are in the beta I just pushed


Dave

 

[Bil Kleb]

Already did--all those changes are in the beta I just pushed

Thank you!

Regards,

 

[Bil Kleb]

I've just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
more classes and something like 200 new methods.

Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel's "Growing a Language"
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415

Regards,
--
http://twitter.com/bil_kleb


P.S. Thanks to Marick for the link -- I'd only previously heard legend
of this talk.

 

[Rick DeNatale]

Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel's "Growing a Language"
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415

Ahh, that video brings back memories. As I recall I was sitting
somewhere near the camera. I particularly loved the "person at work
who deals with marks of trade."

Those were the good old days, before Powerpoint (or at least laptops
and projectors) when we used to carry our talks as boxes of
transparencies (or foils as we used to call them at IBM).

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Those were the good old days, before Powerpoint (or at least laptops
and projectors) when we used to carry our talks as boxes of
transparencies (or foils as we used to call them at IBM).

Hence the expression, "Curses! Foiled again!"

 

[Vassilis Rizopoulos]

Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel's "Growing a
Language"
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415

Quoting from the talk:
"A good programmer does not just write programs,(...) a good programmer
does language design". So Matz's claim at Euruko that he's not really a
good programmer is pure humility
V.-

 

[Tobias Weber]

Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel's "Growing a Language"
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:

P.S. Thanks to Marick for the link -- I'd only previously heard legend
of this talk.

Thank you! I had never.

The first language I fell in love with was designed by a linguist (named
Wall) and, in addition to making user-defined words look like built-in
words, he gave it a lot of grammar. Even after the additions Steel
recommended Java still has very little grammar. Which is why I never
liked it.

In Ruby you could always make things look like they were built-in, *and*
it had a lot of grammar, like if modifiers or the asterisk for list
assignement. I like that better than a big choice of methods.