# A Must Read! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 3, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194 "2007-10-03T11:30:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/1 "2007-10-03T11:30:49Z")
I have found an excellent resource on Object Oriented Programming. [http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp](http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp) ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/2 "2007-10-03T13:51:15Z")
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 03. Okt 2007, 18:30:03 +0900 schrieb removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid: > I have found an excellent resource on Object Oriented Programming. > > [http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp](http://technical-talk.com/SoftDev/OOP/OOPBASICS.asp) > ^^^ > An authority on smart software design. Bertram ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/3 "2007-10-04T08:06:14Z")
On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:53 , Michael T. Richter wrote: > (I have similar questions about people acting as if functional > programming – '50s – were the New Deal.) Huh. I haven’t seen many people claiming Roosevelt had much influence on computer science. Michael G. grzm seespotcode net ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/4 "2007-10-04T09:19:57Z")
> > programming – '50s – were the New Deal.) > > Huh. I haven’t seen many people claiming Roosevelt had much influence > on computer science. “Since 1933, politicians and pundits have often called for a “new deal” regarding an object. That is, they demand a completely new, large-scale approach to a project.” From: [New Deal - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Legacies) Clear as mud? ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/5 "2007-10-04T10:31:55Z")
On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:08 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > calculations for that, however, were done by rooms full of men and > women operating mechanical desk calculators, under the direction of > John Von Neumann and others. These men and women were known as > “computers”, and in many cases had college degrees in mathematics. > > The genius of Von Neumann was that he saw that such calculations > could be done faster, more accurately and with lower cost > electronically. But it didn’t happen until _after_ the Manhattan > Project was over and FDR was in his grave. Slide Rule ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/6 "2007-10-04T10:50:39Z")
John J. wrote: > > > grzm seespotcode net > > > FDR was in his grave. > > Slide Rule Uh … try integrating PDEs with a room full of people running slide rules some time. 🙂 The electronic equivalent of the slide rule, the analog computer, was limited to a precision of at best five decimal digits, and could integrate _ordinary_ differential equations easily. But partial differential equations are a whole 'nutha ball game. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/7 "2007-10-04T10:11:26Z")
Michael G. wrote: > grzm seespotcode net Well … he did fund the Manhattan Project, after all. Most of the calculations for that, however, were done by rooms full of men and women operating mechanical desk calculators, under the direction of John Von Neumann and others. These men and women were known as “computers”, and in many cases had college degrees in mathematics. The genius of Von Neumann was that he saw that such calculations could be done faster, more accurately and with lower cost electronically. But it didn’t happen until _after_ the Manhattan Project was over and FDR was in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-must-read/116194/8 "2007-10-04T11:22:55Z")
On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:37 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > Project was over and FDR was in his grave. > > > > Slide Rule > > Uh … try integrating PDEs with a room full of people running > > slide rules some time. 🙂 > > The electronic equivalent of the slide rule, the analog computer, > was limited to a precision of at best five decimal digits, and > could integrate _ordinary_ differential equations easily. But > partial differential equations are a whole 'nutha ball game. 🙂 Put a lot of stuff in space though! And pioneered through the RF and amplifier circuits. (think vacuum tubes/ valves, now that’s some hardcore engineering!)