SPUG: Re: [Pdx-pm] Meeting
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
Mon Jan 6 19:06:53 CST 2003
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
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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.
>
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Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
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