James, I really enjoy your quotes. This one especially, having just
learned quite a lot about programming via ruby and a friend who insists
on explaining Haskel and “functional programming” to me.
This “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about
programming” quote seems to have a double meaning though. Every
Wednesday, some guys come around with lawnmowers and weedwhackers. I
hear them buzzing away and see them sweating through the window of my
comfortable office. When I’m programming in C, the language makes me
want to stop programming and go join the lawn crew outside…does that
count?
jp
James B. wrote:
rhubarb wrote:
I believe one can submit bug reports, and feature requests, here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
And probably also offer to help fix bugs and add features.
–
James B.
“A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is
not worth knowing.”
On 5/31/06, Ryan L. [email protected] wrote:
http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/194831
As well as others in that thread.
Hopefully, this will only be a 1.8.2 → 1.8.4 oddity. It should not
be the case with compatible compiler versions.
-austin
Actually both ruby and haskell have effected my C a lot more. I’ve been
able to turn several “endless functions” into a short series of actions
done to a list. Of course each thing that would be a one-liner in Ruby
winds up being a call to a function with a for loop in it, but one must
make due with what one has.
Someday I hope to escape from “C hell” and make a living writing with a
real language.
jp
James B. wrote:
Jeff P. wrote:
James, I really enjoy your quotes.
Thank you.
This one especially, having just
learned quite a lot about programming via ruby and a friend who insists
on explaining Haskel and “functional programming” to me.
Let us know how Haskell influences your Ruby. Or vice versa.
This “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about
programming” quote seems to have a double meaning though. Every
Wednesday, some guys come around with lawnmowers and weedwhackers. I
hear them buzzing away and see them sweating through the window of my
comfortable office. When I’m programming in C, the language makes me
want to stop programming and go join the lawn crew outside…does that
count?
I know the feeling!
–
James B.
“A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it.”
Jeff P. wrote:
James, I really enjoy your quotes.
Thank you.
This one especially, having just
learned quite a lot about programming via ruby and a friend who insists
on explaining Haskel and “functional programming” to me.
Let us know how Haskell influences your Ruby. Or vice versa.
This “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about
programming” quote seems to have a double meaning though. Every
Wednesday, some guys come around with lawnmowers and weedwhackers. I
hear them buzzing away and see them sweating through the window of my
comfortable office. When I’m programming in C, the language makes me
want to stop programming and go join the lawn crew outside…does that
count?
I know the feeling!
–
James B.
“A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it.”
On 6/1/06, Leslie V. [email protected] wrote:
acceptance" is that I don’t get to program in Ruby at work much.
Actually, in general, “open source” projects (like, say, Apache) – or
rather, their primary contributors – do indeed tend to care very
much about mainstream acceptance. “Free software” project contributors
OTOH tend to care more about their software remaining free, with
popularity or acceptance being mostly a nice side-effect.
The current Ruby license seems to straddle both sides: the GPL is
pretty much the standard free software license, but the rest of the
Ruby license looks a bit incomplete or vague in some areas, to me
anyway.
On 6/1/06, Jeff P. [email protected] wrote:
Actually both ruby and haskell have effected my C a lot more. I’ve been
able to turn several “endless functions” into a short series of actions
done to a list. Of course each thing that would be a one-liner in Ruby
winds up being a call to a function with a for loop in it, but one must
make due with what one has.
Someday I hope to escape from “C hell” and make a living writing with a
real language.
Woohoo! Well, someday maybe.
I at least have C# as well as my C, and am finding myself calling a
few Ruby scripts from C# to do background things. I guess one of the
downsides of opensource projects not caring about “mainstream
acceptance” is that I don’t get to program in Ruby at work much.
I’d need RAD on Windows at work, and so the only thing I think of at
the moment is to wait for the windows version of QtRuby to arrive.
Or until we all switch to Linux… (sure thing!)