Tag Archives: ruby

Nov
24
2011

Why do people dislike Perl?

I happen to enjoy using it much more than shell scripts for anything that needs a more complex logic or real data structures. It gives me better portability, a ridiculously large selection of easily installable modules, and the freedom to scale should I need it. I could say this for Python or Ruby as well [...]

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Nov
24
2009

Finished the Koans!

I spent the last few days going through the Ruby Koans I mentioned in my previous post, and I stand by my initial opinion that it’s easily the best and quickest way to get into the language. I had too much fun doing them, and know much more Ruby than when I began. The best [...]

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Nov
20
2009

Learning Ruby

As I’ve stayed mostly out of the web programming revolution, I’ve lagged behind some of the good technologies we have now, and have mostly been occupied with Python, and the application side of programming. One of the biggest trends currently is Ruby, which—while not being a web language exclusively—was made tremendously popular by the strong [...]

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