anonymous_james | (no subject)

So I'm wandering along the internet highways trying to find an example of how to use collections and iterators in Java and I discover what looks to be an interesting page, but it has some odd syntax.

I search a little deeper and its coded in Ruby.... Ruby? What's that? Well its
an "interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable."

(taken from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html)

I'm rather impressed that I've managed to find out about a new language. Sure the true geeks (I'm looking at you

barty and

themadone) probably already know about it but still I've never heard of it and that's what matters to me.

Threaded | Flat

Yeah, I've known about Ruby for years. I've dabbled a bit but I haven't done anything serious with it yet. It's been popular with early adopters for ages (probably because it's quite smalltalky) but it's gaining popularity with the mainstream because of Rails.

I plan to dabble some more because Rails looks so damn good. I like Ruby because it feels a lot like Python (my current main language) but more pure OO. I dislike Ruby because the syntax isn't as simple and pretty as Python's. Python has started growing Ruby-like features (Python's generators feel like Ruby's closures) but I think they're done better in Ruby.

Ruby is definately a language worth watching.