[#77662] A bundle of newbie queries — Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>

I've finally overcome my newbie embarrassment enough to post about

14 messages 2003/08/01

[#77707] Re: is rubyforge down ? — "Tom Copeland" <tom@...>

> On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:53:05 +0200, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

16 messages 2003/08/01

[#77794] 1.8.0-previewX rb_sys_fail() on socket instead of an Exception. — Kero van Gelder <kero@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2003/08/02

[#77806] Indentation Style — Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...>

I've been meaning to ask this for quite some time. Why is and

28 messages 2003/08/02
[#77817] Re: Indentation Style — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...> 2003/08/02

* Nikolai Weibull (lone-star@home.se) wrote:

[#77838] Re: Indentation Style — Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...> 2003/08/02

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:02:08 +0900

[#77840] Re: Indentation Style — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/02

On Sat August 2 2003 1:01 pm, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

[#77888] Lafcadio: An object-relational mapping layer for Ruby — sera@... (Francis Hwang)

Hi everybody,

13 messages 2003/08/03

[#77896] Too bad I've found about Ruby — "wit" <wit7777bezspamu@...>

Hi.

21 messages 2003/08/03

[#77928] Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me! — "Katrina" <katrina@...>

Hi again,

14 messages 2003/08/04

[#77946] ruby 1.8.0 — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

Hello,

32 messages 2003/08/04

[#77992] clearing a parameter in Ruby? — Roy Patrick Tan <rtan@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2003/08/04

[#78023] Parrot SMOP benchmark — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>

I was just reading Dan Sugalski's slides from RubyConf 2002 and noticed the benchmarks relating to something called "SMOP" at the end of the article.

12 messages 2003/08/04

[#78032] What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0? — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>

Since there were a number of requests around for a more detailed

29 messages 2003/08/05
[#78122] Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0? — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...> 2003/08/06

why the lucky stiff wrote:

[#78054] Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Somethings rotten...

21 messages 2003/08/05
[#78055] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — ts <decoux@...> 2003/08/05

>>>>> "D" == David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> writes:

[#78057] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2003/08/05

> D> irb(main):001:0> require 'Singleton'

[#78058] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — ts <decoux@...> 2003/08/05

>>>>> "D" == David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> writes:

[#78080] Re: Log4r and Ruby 1.8.0 in Singleton problems — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2003/08/05

ts wrote:

[#78089] format number with comma separators? — Chris Morris <chrismo@...>

I'm brain dead and just trying to get formatted numbers in a task that's

13 messages 2003/08/05

[#78151] Why does Ruby have callcc? — Jim Bob <invalid@...>

I understand, in a woozy sort of way, what callcc does. What I

46 messages 2003/08/06
[#78158] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...> 2003/08/06

Jim Bob wrote:

[#78247] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/06

I have been interested in these continuation-thingys for a while now, so now

[#78165] newbie question from a smalltalker — "Adriano Volpones" <adriano.volpones@...>

Dear all,

38 messages 2003/08/06
[#78166] Re: newbie question from a smalltalker — Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> 2003/08/06

Adriano Volpones wrote:

[#78173] Re: newbie question from a smalltalker — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2003/08/06

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 11:22:21 PM, Lyle wrote:

[#78251] More on DRB & OpenSSL — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...>

OK, I've tracked down my problem with DRb and OpenSSL a bit more; perhaps

26 messages 2003/08/06
[#78253] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...> 2003/08/06

Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

[#78256] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Aredridel <aredridel@...> 2003/08/06

> I've noticed that there is always a strange silence on DRb questions. I

[#78265] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...> 2003/08/06

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Aredridel wrote:

[#78270] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...> 2003/08/06

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng [mailto:hgs@dmu.ac.uk] wrote:

[#78309] Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...> 2003/08/07

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

[#78274] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Dan Doel <djd15@...>

As for why callcc takes a block (I didn't see this in any of the replies

19 messages 2003/08/07
[#78291] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/07

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 08:32 PM, Dan Doel wrote:

[#78299] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...> 2003/08/07

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 00:42, Ben Giddings wrote:

[#78427] Re: Why does Ruby have callcc? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/08

On Thu August 7 2003 3:03 am, Jim Weirich wrote:

[#78282] Re: [Devculture] ruby question - try Python also (fwd) — Pat Eyler <pate@...>

hmmm, this doesn't mesh terribly well with my experience. Anyone else car

13 messages 2003/08/07

[#78328] Elegant solution for a loop-break problem — KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@...>

Hi!

27 messages 2003/08/07

[#78419] Distributing Ruby applications — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hello Rubyists,

19 messages 2003/08/08

[#78487] Re: Ducktype, right? — "Mills Thomas (app1tam)" <app1tam@...>

> -----Original Message-----

20 messages 2003/08/08
[#78502] Re: Ducktype, right? — Dave Thomas <dave@...> 2003/08/08

Mills Thomas (app1tam) wrote:

[#78505] Re: Ducktype, right? — Ben Giddings <ben@...> 2003/08/08

On Fri August 8 2003 1:25 pm, Dave Thomas wrote:

[#78511] Re: Ducktype, right? — Chris Morris <chrismo@...> 2003/08/08

Ben Giddings wrote:

[#78569] Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@...>

Hi !

48 messages 2003/08/09
[#78620] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...> 2003/08/10

Kent Dahl <kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

[#78622] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/08/10

[#78629] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — dblack@... 2003/08/10

Hi --

[#78634] Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;) — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/08/10

dblack@superlink.net wrote:

[#78664] rbbr-0.3.1 — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>

Hi,

38 messages 2003/08/11
[#78670] Re: [ANN] rbbr-0.3.1 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/08/11

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:10:41PM +0900, Masao Mutoh wrote:

[#78672] Re: [ANN] rbbr-0.3.1 — Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...> 2003/08/11

Hi,

[#78674] Re: [ANN] rbbr-0.3.1 — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/08/11

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:50:56PM +0900, Masao Mutoh wrote:

[#78682] How to build a distributable Solaris binary for Ruby 1.8? — google-venkatp@... (Venkat)

Hello all:

12 messages 2003/08/11

[#78736] Ruby vs Python? — Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2003/08/11

[#78755] NaN and Inifinity — Scott Thompson <easco@...>

If I do something like

22 messages 2003/08/12

[#78810] UTF-8 question — Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...>

I've finally switched to UTF-8. It's awesome. Now, if I can only find

24 messages 2003/08/12
[#78823] Re: UTF-8 question — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#78834] Re: UTF-8 question — Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...> 2003/08/12

* Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> [Aug, 12 2003 18:10]:

[#78867] Re: UTF-8 question — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#78813] Nested class/module namespace — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...>

The new ability to declare a class nested in another module (or class)

36 messages 2003/08/12
[#78831] Re: Nested class/module namespace — Kent Dahl <kentda+news@...> 2003/08/12

Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

[#78862] Re: Nested class/module namespace — "Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@...> 2003/08/12

Kent Dahl [mailto:kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no] wrote:

[#78843] Re: Nested class/module namespace — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/12

Hi,

[#78815] Windows Installer for Ruby 1.8.0 Final — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Thanks for your patience

21 messages 2003/08/12

[#78836] AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added — "Recheis Meinrad" <Meinrad.Recheis@...>

29 messages 2003/08/12
[#78858] Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added — "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...> 2003/08/12

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:56:48 +0900, Recheis Meinrad wrote:

[#78980] Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...> 2003/08/13

Hello Simon,

[#79002] Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — Jim Weirich <jweirich@...> 2003/08/13

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:03, Lothar Scholz wrote:

[#79009] Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2003/08/14

A difference between smalltalk and ruby...smalltalk is image based

[#79044] Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — "Its Me" <itsme213@...> 2003/08/14

[#79046] Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added) — Richard Kilmer <rich@...> 2003/08/14

[#78905] ruby curses documentation ? — MENON Jean-Francois <jean-francois.menon@...>

hello,

12 messages 2003/08/13

[#78961] Java/Ruby communication — Nigel Gilbert <n.gilbert@...>

I am planning to write a Java program and and a Ruby program and have

16 messages 2003/08/13

[#79001] Overloading () — Dan Doel <djd15@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2003/08/13

[#79060] Ruby & Windows-world; IDEs — Armin Roehrl <armin@...>

Hi all,

32 messages 2003/08/14

[#79142] list of Ruby capable text editors? — Martin Pirker <crf@...>

Hi...

25 messages 2003/08/15

[#79192] Newbie Q: Data encapsulation with Ruby — Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@...>

Hi,

23 messages 2003/08/16
[#79195] Re: Newbie Q: Data encapsulation with Ruby — dblack@... 2003/08/16

Hi --

[#79250] Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — <prosys@...>

Hi All,

53 messages 2003/08/17
[#80116] Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — "Jason Watkins" <jason_watkins@...> 2003/08/25

OCaml is a fine language, but it certainly is not as fun as ruby... unless

[#80142] Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2003/08/25

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:23:56PM +0900, Jason Watkins wrote:

[#80148] Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml — mark <msparshatt@...> 2003/08/25

On Monday 25 Aug 2003 4:10 pm, Brian Candler wrote:

[#79280] Wish: Python-style indenting — Jon_Aquino@... (Jonathan Aquino)

I wish Ruby had Python's use of whitespace to indicate blocks. Then I

17 messages 2003/08/17

[#79283] Bug when rerouting String#gsub with a block using $1? — Florian Gross <flgr@...>

Moin!

11 messages 2003/08/17

[#79292] Ruby for 3D graphics? — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com>

Ok, I'm sick to death of C++. I'm moving on to a higher level language of

14 messages 2003/08/18

[#79319] Question: immutable strings as design goal? — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

-talkers,

15 messages 2003/08/18

[#79337] Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

33 messages 2003/08/18
[#79362] Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? — hanzspam@... (Hannu Kankaanp粐) 2003/08/18

Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in message news:<oprt3sncb0oglyup@mail1.telia.com>...

[#79397] Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2003/08/18

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 3:21:32 AM, Hannu wrote:

[#79412] Why did you switch from Python to Ruby? — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com>

This question is only meant to apply to people who used to use Python, but

174 messages 2003/08/19
[#79492] Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> 2003/08/19

Sean O'Dell wrote:

[#79504] Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — Michael Granger <ged@...> 2003/08/20

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

[#79517] Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> 2003/08/20

Sean O'Dell wrote:

[#79522] Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) — Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...> 2003/08/20

[#79414] $VERBOSE=true returns warnings from standard library — thomass@... (Thomas)

I normally write my ruby code with $VERBOSE=true. When I do this in

11 messages 2003/08/19

[#79433] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — phlip_cpp@... (Phlip)

> I don't know either. I do know of several posters on the XP

18 messages 2003/08/19
[#79435] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/08/19

> If you were to instrument my physical responses and typing rate while

[#79461] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — "Dave Benjamin" <dave@3dex.com> 2003/08/19

"Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote in message

[#79462] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — dblack@... 2003/08/19

Hi --

[#79470] Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python? — dblack@... 2003/08/19

Hi --

[#79533] What attracts me to Ruby — Ged Byrne <gedb01@...>

As a newbie moving over from Python, the recent posts

24 messages 2003/08/20

[#79655] Punctuation as noise — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I've been thinking for a day or so about

21 messages 2003/08/20

[#79673] Trollassassin — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

So, I had this idea, but I couldn't think of anywhere better to post it.

13 messages 2003/08/20

[#79754] Class variables - a surprising result — Jason Williams <jason@...>

class Sup

14 messages 2003/08/21

[#79788] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>

Obviously there's some confusion though Matz.

19 messages 2003/08/21
[#79815] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/21

Hi,

[#79822] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> 2003/08/21

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:47:33AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#79794] Integrated Webserver? — Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>

The HTML form thread made me wonder if we shouldn't have some equivalent

13 messages 2003/08/21

[#79818] Re: How do I handle an HTML form from ruby? — "Mills Thomas (app1tam)" <app1tam@...>

Having Ruby start a browser with the correct form.html file is easy enough.

20 messages 2003/08/21
[#80198] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@...> 2003/08/26

Thank you Nathaniel.

[#80269] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> 2003/08/26

il Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:01:51 +0900, David Corbin

[#80369] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Mauricio Fern疣dez <batsman.geo@...> 2003/08/27

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:28:31AM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:

[#80578] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@...> 2003/08/29

I am not sure what the AIX comment is all about, but

[#80586] Re: Any sample code where ruby is used in the Eclipse devepment environment? — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/08/29

--- Ludwigi Beethoven <aix_tech@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#79819] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>

My point was that many programmar's mistake Ruby's 'class' variables as

26 messages 2003/08/21
[#79887] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2003/08/22

Hi,

[#79888] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@...> 2003/08/22

> Hi,

[#79890] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...> 2003/08/22

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:32:12 +0900

[#79894] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...> 2003/08/22

Ryan Pavlik wrote:

[#79898] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Dan Doel <djd15@...> 2003/08/22

Patrick Bennett wrote:

[#79901] Re: Class variables - a surprising result — Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...> 2003/08/22

Dan Doel wrote:

[#79833] Wrapping ENV — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I just wrote a little piece of code. Is it useful to anyone but

15 messages 2003/08/21

[#79849] POLS and names of mathematical functions — "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@...>

Saluton!

17 messages 2003/08/21

[#79981] Aspect oriented Everything? — letterbox1001@... (New_aspect)

Hello,

37 messages 2003/08/22

[#80038] Ruby & Perl — David Corbin <dcorbin@...>

Has anyone considered some way to make Perl modules callable from Ruby?

20 messages 2003/08/23

[#80135] Specification of Ruby regex? — Ronald Pijnacker <rhp@...>

Hi all,

32 messages 2003/08/25
[#80211] Re: Specification of Ruby regex? — "Tim Hunter" <cyclists@...> 2003/08/26

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:15:38 +0900, Ronald Pijnacker wrote:

[#80212] Re: Specification of Ruby regex? — Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...> 2003/08/26

Hello!

[#80157] Ruby launching system apps? — "Dan" <falseflyboy@...>

I have a UNIX machine and I want a ruby app that can launch UNIX commands

15 messages 2003/08/25

[#80217] Another Ruby-powered site — Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>

http://qurl.net/ -- a couple of hours with Ruby and FastCGI.

21 messages 2003/08/26
[#80276] Re: Another Ruby-powered site — gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> 2003/08/26

il Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:58:21 +0900, Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>

[#80278] Re: Another Ruby-powered site — Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...> 2003/08/26

--- gabriele renzi <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> wrote:

[#80316] errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>

I'm trying to compile Ruby under Solaris. I suck at C, so I don't know

24 messages 2003/08/27
[#80320] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/27

Hi,

[#80322] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/27

Hi,

[#80327] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/27

I am using 3.0.3.

[#80331] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/27

Hi,

[#80345] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/27

> Instead, send ext/socket/mkmf.log.

[#80663] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/31

Hi,

[#80668] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/31

> What headers do you need to compile sys/socket.h?

[#80670] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — nobu.nokada@... 2003/08/31

Hi,

[#80672] Re: errors compiling Ruby under Solaris — "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...> 2003/08/31

It turns out that the thing I sent before was from a Solaris 9 machine,

[#80354] Mac OS X and ruby-postgres again — Thomas Yager-Madden <tym@...>

Hello,

14 messages 2003/08/27
[#80359] Re: Mac OS X and ruby-postgres again — Brian McCallister <mccallister@...> 2003/08/27

How did you install postgresql? I had to specify the location of the

[#80399] os x / mysql : install 1.8 : ruby = nil — paul@... (paul vudmaska)

I'm trying to install ruby/eruby and mysql to learn ruby for web stuff

10 messages 2003/08/27

[#80457] #collect with block modifying receiver — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>

Hello, all...

13 messages 2003/08/28

[#80497] Python vs. Ruby — Fred <fred@...>

Can anyone give me a good reason why I would want to use Ruby over Python?

53 messages 2003/08/28
[#80507] Re: Python vs. Ruby — dagbrown@... (Dave Brown) 2003/08/28

In article <cxu3b.289101$uu5.63844@sccrnsc04>,

[#80519] Re: Python vs. Ruby — Scott Thompson <easco@...> 2003/08/29

> : Can anyone give me a good reason why I would want to use Ruby over

[#80573] Re: Python vs. Ruby — "W. Kent Starr" <wyzzrd@...> 2003/08/29

Careful, boys,

[#80751] Re: Python vs. Ruby — hanzspam@... (Hannu Kankaanp粐) 2003/09/01

"jbritt@ruby-doc.org" <jbritt@ruby-doc.org> wrote in message news:<3F519252.3090408@ruby-doc.org>...

[#80774] Re: Python vs. Ruby — mark <msparshatt@...> 2003/09/01

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:47 am, Hannu Kankaanp粐 wrote:

[#80788] Re: Python vs. Ruby 2003/09/01

mark wrote:

[#80884] Re: Python vs. Ruby — james_b <james_b@...> 2003/09/02

Sean O'Dell wrote:

[#80896] Re: Python vs. Ruby 2003/09/02

james_b wrote:

[#80542] multiply all array with array — ibotty <me@...>

before i spent to many words describing something so simple:

16 messages 2003/08/29

[#80715] `echo %!(*` — Tom Felker <tcfelker@...>

Hello all,

15 messages 2003/08/31

Story of B

From: Massimiliano Mirra - bard <mmirra@...>
Date: 2003-08-20 20:51:54 UTC
List: ruby-talk #79705
======================================================================

Subject: Ruby for 3D graphics?
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:32:42 -0700

Ok, I'm sick to death of C++.  I'm moving on to a higher level language of
some kind.  But, my lower level 3D graphics problems are not going to go
away.  Why is Ruby exciting to a 3D graphics optimization jock?

----

Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:04:03 -0700

Ok, good at scripting, not good at embedded.  How about large systems
programming?

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Subject: Evaluating Ruby objectively (not exactly)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:37:22 -0700

I'd like to know how appropriate people think it is as a systems programming
language.  Someone else said, scripting is good, embedded is bad.  What
about huge honking piles of code?  What happens as you scale up?

----

Subject: Re: This is a newsgroup, not a mailing list (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:50:28 -0700

Truthfully, I'm not looking for 3D graphics solutions right now.  I'm
looking for:
1) a way to make money
2) a way to implement 2D games quickly in a cross-platform manner

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Subject: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:52:58 -0700

This question is only meant to apply to people who used to use Python, but
switched to Ruby.  Why did you do so?

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Subject: Evaluating Ruby objectively (not exactly)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:37:22 -0700

But I think it's probably going to be awhile before I know or care
what the difference between dynamism in Python and Ruby is.

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Subject: social engineering (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:03:53 -0700

The important point that I recalled from discussion, is Python isn't
as backwards as the Ruby FAQ would have you believe.  It keeps
improving and a lot of the issues go away over time.

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:22:33 -0700

Well, the Python crowd recognizes and has all of these dilemmas.  But the
reaction of the community isn't to sit there and say, "Oh, we can't win,
marketing is futile."  They start a marketing-python list and deal with the
problem.  They don't duck it, or handwave it away as unimportant.  This is
the main way that Python is more advanced than Ruby.  It is more advanced in
terms of community organization, tools and library support, marketing,
mindshare, etc.  All that boring industrial stuff.  The stuff it takes to
make a high flying language actually usable in an industrial context.

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:25:29 -0700

> Now, to address your original question a little: What compelling
> reason is there to choose Ruby over Python? (I'm paraphrasing;
> forgive me if I distorted your meaning.)

You have distorted the meaning.  I asked, "Why would you abandon Ruby?"  Has
nothing to do with Python.

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:25:29 -0700

I'm bored with all kinds of things in computers.  It comes from having
experience.

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Subject: Evaluating Ruby objectively (not exactly)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:37:22 -0700

For the most part I dislike programming,

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Subject: the mindshare of Ruby (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:34:51 -0700

> And, learning a new language is always beneficial.

No it is not.  Learning a new language is a time sink

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Subject: Re: the mindshare of Ruby (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 05:54:41 -0700

> Learning languages is fun, I'd do it even if it were useless.

I consider it pain and suffering.  

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:59:32 -0700

Your attitudes are deeply ugly.

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:39:23 -0700

I think you define "informed view" according to your own prejudices. 

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:11:50 -0700

Let me point out what you don't like.

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:22:33 -0700

Recognize that if that's your attitude, people *won't* come.

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Subject: Re: At least one nasty person in your community
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:33:05 -0700

You have a problem child.

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Subject: social engineering (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:03:53 -0700

People fixate on what they want to have happen, rather than what's
going to happen.  So they implement dysfunctional policies that don't
get them what they want.  They iterate in endless loops because they
lack imagination.

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Subject: Re: At least one nasty person in your community
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:46:23 -0700

IMO, certain people should accept blame for being hostile to me in the
first place.

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Subject: Re: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:59:32 -0700

Well, this is Usenet, and it ain't your show.

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Subject: This is a newsgroup, not a mailing list (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:04:43 -0700

When you gate your mailing list to a USENET newsgroup, you are agreeing to
the standards of USENET.  The gate is a convenience for you, not a right,
let alone an abrogation of general USENET standards.  Your newsgroup has a
Charter.

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Subject: Re: At least one nasty person in your community
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:46:23 -0700

IMO, the other thing you should do as a community, is start recognizing that
you're on a newsgroup, not a mailing list.

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Subject: Re: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:41:50 -0700

> You're a stranger marching into a party beating a drum and
> demanding attention,

See, that's how you see your community.  Something private.  Something to be
protected.  Others see a newsgroup as a space of global public discourse.
With rules and mores common to all unmoderated newsgroups.

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Subject: Re: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:41:50 -0700

It doesn't matter what you were before.  You signed on to Usenet.  There are
rules on Usenet for unmoderated newsgroups.

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Subject: Re: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:44:33 -0700

> (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html)
> 3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews
>     - Read both mailing lists and newsgroups for one to two months
>       before you post anything.  This helps you to get an
>       understanding of the culture of the group.

Well, that's ridiculous.

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Subject: Re: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:41:50 -0700

I don't have time for "hunt the FAQ."  Your FAQ was not in my newsfeed when
I signed on.

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Subject: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:22:54 -0700

> That's because, contrary to common guidelines of Usenet etiquette -
> which you'll no doubt declare are of no interest to you personally
> right now - you have not spent any time lurking to get the feel of the
> group.

I don't believe in lurking "to get the feel," and never have.  It is a
luxury for people with all the time in the world. 

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Subject: Brandon's personal style (was)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:28:20 -0700

> I've found that it often pays
> to lurk on a list for a while, read the archives, and get a sense of
> things before posting.  That way, you avoid asking frequently asked
> questions, bring up unrelated discussions.

But those are benefits to the Ruby community, not to me.  Why am I supposed
to do things only for your community's benefit?

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Subject: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:22:54 -0700

I don't believe in lurking "to get the feel," and never have.  It is a
luxury for people with all the time in the world. 

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Subject: Re: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:41:50 -0700

I don't have time for "hunt the FAQ."  Your FAQ was not in my newsfeed when
I signed on.

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Subject: Old guard FAQ culture
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:22:54 -0700

Nobody has the time.  This is 2003.  Things to do.  Places to be.

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bard@prism:/var/spool/news/comp/lang/ruby$ du -hc `grep -l 'From: "Brandon J. Van Every' *` | grep total
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