SPUG: Re: [Pdx-pm] Meeting

[Pat Eyler]

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.

Pat Eyler
Kaitiaki/manager               migrant Linux sys admin
the Koha project               ruby, shell, and perl geek
http://www.koha.org            http://pate.eylerfamily.org
On 6 Jan 2003, Michael R. Wolf wrote:

>
> 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.
> >
> > __END__
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> > Pdx-pm-list at mail.pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pdx-pm-list
> >
>
> --
> Michael R. Wolf
>     All mammals learn by playing!
>         MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
>
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