I’ve just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
more classes and something like 200 new methods. A boatload of the
existing methods have changes too, from additional calling sequences
to new defaults.
Enjoy
Dave
On Mar 20, 7:09 am, Dave T. [email protected] wrote:
I’ve just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
more classes and something like 200 new methods. A boatload of the
existing methods have changes too, from additional calling sequences
to new defaults.
Enjoy
Dave
Well you better get cracking then!
Only kidding 
cheers,
On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Well you better get cracking then!
Only kidding 
Already did–all those changes are in the beta I just pushed 
Dave
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:42:13 -0400
Bil K. [email protected] wrote:
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http://twitter.com/bil_kleb
yep, thanks,
just ‘regenerating’ it know.
cheers,
Dave T. wrote:
I’ve just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
more classes and something like 200 new methods.
Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel’s “Growing a
Language”
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415
Regards,
http://twitter.com/bil_kleb
P.S. Thanks to Marick for the link – I’d only previously heard legend
of this talk.
On 3/29/08, Bil K. [email protected] wrote:
Dave T. wrote:
I’ve just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
more classes and something like 200 new methods.
Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel’s “Growing a Language”
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415
Ahh, that video brings back memories. As I recall I was sitting
somewhere near the camera. I particularly loved the “person at work
who deals with marks of trade.”
Those were the good old days, before Powerpoint (or at least laptops
and projectors) when we used to carry our talks as boxes of
transparencies (or foils as we used to call them at IBM).
Rick DeNatale
My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Rick DeNatale wrote:
Those were the good old days, before Powerpoint (or at least laptops
and projectors) when we used to carry our talks as boxes of
transparencies (or foils as we used to call them at IBM).
Hence the expression, “Curses! Foiled again!” 
In article [email protected], Bil K. [email protected] wrote:
more classes and something like 200 new methods.
Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel’s “Growing a Language”
1998 OOPSLA talk lately:
P.S. Thanks to Marick for the link – I’d only previously heard legend
of this talk.
Thank you! I had never.
The first language I fell in love with was designed by a linguist (named
Wall) and, in addition to making user-defined words look like built-in
words, he gave it a lot of grammar. Even after the additions Steel
recommended Java still has very little grammar. Which is why I never
liked it.
In Ruby you could always make things look like they were built-in, and
it had a lot of grammar, like if modifiers or the asterisk for list
assignement. I like that better than a big choice of methods.