Ruby Read
According to Tim O'Reilly's always interesting quarterly analysis of the book industry, Ruby is doing extraordinarily well, with a 689% quarterly increase in sales and is now approaching Perl in terms of book sales.
Caveats include the (some would say profound) difference between book sales and use. Most Perl programmers …
more ...Borland's Got a Buyer for DevCo, but Not Saying Who
Word is that Borland has come to an agreement with a still-secret savior to purchase and support "DevCo": the former languages and tools division.
Details as they emerge, but that won't be for a few weeks
more ...Garden Point Ruby.NET: True Compiler Available for Download
"[Wayne Kelly is] pleased to announce the preliminary Beta release of the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. Note: this is not just a Ruby/.NET bridge, nor a Ruby Interpreter implemented on .NET, but a true .NET compiler. The compiler can be used to statically compile a Ruby source file …
more ...Digg Homepage: W00t!
My "knowing" exercises made the Digg homepage. Now I have to resist the temptation to check the comments every 15 minutes...
Failed...Okay, this time for sure...
more ...15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language: Part 3, Libraries, Frameworks, and Mashups
This is the final post in a series of 3 covering 15 exercises that provide a sense of a programming language's idioms and "feel." For newcomers, if you can't "jump in" and tackle these exercises in a particular programming language, don't embarrass yourself by claiming to know that language. For …
more ...15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language: Part 2, Data Structures
This is the 2nd in a series of 3 posts covering 15 exercises that provide a sense of a programming language's idioms and "feel." For newcomers, if you can't "jump in" and tackle these exercises in a particular programming language, don't embarrass yourself by claiming to know that language. For …
more ...15 Exercises to Know A Programming Language: Part 1
There's a popular post on Digg right now entitled "15 Exercises for Learning a New Programming Language." The list is discouragingly non-structural: calculate a function and print out one thing if it's \<= , another if it's greater, get system time and format it, etc. The exercises, while fine enough for familiarizing …
more ...Nick Hodges Becomes Product Manager of Delphi
Nick Hodges has been named Product Manager of Delphi at "DevCo," the to-be-named, to-be-formalized spin-off of Borland's languages division. His blog.
more ...Learning Lisp or Ruby
My favorite technical book of the past year was Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Believe me, if it could convince me to return to Lisp, it's a well-written book.
However, all the cool kids are learning Ruby. Ruby has some Lisp-like flexibility in comparison to more popular languages like …
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