SPUG: Re: [Pdx-pm] Meeting

[Michael R. Wolf]

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.
> 
> __END__
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-- 
Michael R. Wolf
    All mammals learn by playing!
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