[Spug-list] Re: SPUG: Re: [Pdx-pm] Meeting (fwd)

[Pat Eyler]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Ryan Davis wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 09:34 AM, Pat Eyler wrote:
>
> > We could probably make this easier (or more interesting), and do a Ruby
> > for Perl Programmers meeting for the February Seattle Ruby Brigade
> > meeting
> > ... it could be either a follow up to Phil's presentation or another
> > intro
> > for people who don't want to make the trip.
>
> Doug Beaver and I will be going down to tomorrow's perl/ruby meeting in
> Portland! I hope it's a good turnout... I'd like to make this sort of
> cross-pollination much more common between Seattle and Portland, maybe
> even BC as well... Lots of driving, but lots of fun!

It should be a blast.  I've got other commitments Wednesday, but I wish I
could go with you guys.

-pate


>
> >> Anyone interested in a road trip to Portland?  The Portland Perl
> >> Mongers are having a meeting this Wednesday, January 8th.
> >>
> >>     Topic: Ruby for Perl Programmers or What's all this Ruby stuff?
> >>
> >> Michael Wolf
> >>
> >> ================================================================
> >>
> >> Joshua Keroes <jkeroes at eli.net> writes:
> >>
> >>> Looks like there's a meeting this Wedsnesday.
> >>> http://portland.pm.org/ says:
> >>>
> >>> News
> >>>
> >>>   The next meeting is Wednesday Jan 8th 2003, this will be the first
> >>>   meeting of 2003. Phil Tomson will be speaking on Ruby for Perl
> >>>   programmers
> >>>
> >>> Bio: Phil Tomson
> >>>
> >>>   I've been programming in Ruby for about 2 years now - sometimes
> >>> even
> >>>   for money! (though not currently) Prior to that I did a fair
> >>> amount of
> >>>   Perl programming for about six years. Prior to that (about 10 years
> >>>   ago) I was an ASIC (hardware) engineer.
> >>>
> >>> Topic: Ruby for Perl Programmers or What's all this Ruby stuff?
> >>>
> >>>   You can do object oriented Perl programming and I have, but, uh,
> >>> ...
> >>>   how can I put this tactfully considering the audience... well, it
> >>> just
> >>>   kind of began to make my eyes hurt ;-) After finding Ruby a couple
> >>> of
> >>>   years back my eyes are feeling much better.
> >>>
> >>>   So "Why should I learn Ruby?" you ask? Well, it has a lot of the
> >>> same
> >>>   features you like about Perl - like regular expressions, strings,
> >>>   arrays, hashes - but they're used in a very object oriented,
> >>>   consistent manner. Ruby is different enough from Perl to so that
> >>>   learning it will help you to look at programming problems in a new
> >>>   light and that's always valuable. I've also found that Ruby is easy
> >>>   for Perl programmers to learn - it only took me a few days to
> >>> become
> >>>   comfortable with Ruby.
> >>>
> >>>   I'll present a quick introduction to Ruby and how it's similar to
> >>> and
> >>>   yet different from Perl.
> >>>
> >>> Where and when
> >>>
> >>>   Place: Onsite! Technology, Inc.
> >>>   Address: 333 SE 3rd, Portland, OR
> >>>   Date and Time: 2003-01-08 at 7:00 PM
> >>>   URL: www.onsitetech.com
> >>>
> >>>   There will be a social meeting at Rose and Raindrop at 6:00 PM. The
> >>>   address is 532 S.E. Grand and it's about 3 blocks from the Onsite!
> >>>   Technology offices.
>