SPUG: Ruby Meeting Follow Up

Pat Eyler pate at eylerfamily.org
Mon May 20 12:14:22 CDT 2002


Having just posted an announcement for the May meeting of the Seattle Ruby
Brigade, I've been asked to quickly explain what Ruby is and why you might
be interested.

Ruby is a programming with a significantly Perly feel (it's often
described as a cross between Perl and Smalltalk).  It is widely used in
Japan, and is starting to make inroads in the US as well.  You may be
interested in learning more about Ruby for a variety of reasons,
including:

* Learning more about Ruby (and/or other languages) can make you a better
  programmer

* Ruby currently sports some (many?) of the features planned for Perl6,
  seeing them in use now may give you a leg up

* Ruby is influencing the design of Parrot (not as much as Perl, but ...)

* Ruby seems to be gaining popularity in the XP world, there is a big
  confluence of ideas between the communities

* Ruby hackers (like Perl hackers) are cool people and hanging out with
  them may be fun ;)


If you'd like more information about Ruby, these links may help:

www.rubygarden.org/ruby (the Ruby community wiki)

www.ruby-lang.org (the english language home of ruby)

www.rubycentral.com (the on-line home of the 'Programming Ruby' book by
  the pragmatic programmers)


thanks,
-pate


ps.  If there's a significant desire not to hear about ruby stuff in the
future, I'll happily stop posting.  If people want more than a monthly
meeting announcement, I'd recommend joining the ruby-lang mailinglist or
the seattle.rb mailing list (see the announcement and/or the above links
for more information)




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