More "Ruby for Java developers"

[Tom Copeland]

There's a new article on IBM developerWorks called "Ruby off the Rails":

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ruby/

It's pointing out various nifty things about Ruby for those Java
developers (and other folks) whose only interaction with Ruby has been
via Rails. It's a "Ruby's good for Rails, and good on its own, too"
kind of thing.

I like the section headings... "Collections done right", good stuff.

Yours,

Tom

 

[Malte Milatz]

Tom Copeland:

There's a new article on IBM developerWorks called "Ruby off the Rails":

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ruby/

Huh, it is really written from a very Javanese perspective:

| First, Ruby has no brackets or semicolons, and it makes types completely
| optional.

But apart from that, of course, it's always nice to see people understanding
where Ruby can help them better than other langauges.

Malte

 

[Joe Van Dyk]

Tom Copeland:

Huh, it is really written from a very Javanese perspective:

| First, Ruby has no brackets or semicolons, and it makes types completel= y
| optional.

But apart from that, of course, it's always nice to see people understand= ing
where Ruby can help them better than other langauges.

Ruby has lots of brackets and braces. And you can use semi-colons.=20
And it is a strongly-typed language.

Grr.

 

[Malte Milatz]

Joe Van Dyk:

Ruby has lots of brackets and braces. And you can use semi-colons. And it
is a strongly-typed language.

Yea - that's why I quoted the above sentence. ;-)

Malte