Ready For Ruby
Wed Oct 26 2005
A colleague of mine gave a short presentation about “Ruby on rails”. I already looked at Ruby before, but probably not thoroughly enough.
What caught my eye was the meta programming capabilities! I missed these the first time I studied Ruby. I talked about the importance of meta programming in a previous post called ‘The Next Paradigm’. Shortly after this presentation the same colleague pointed me to the book “Beyond Java” from Bruce Tate. It is an excellent book, it confirms my thoughts, albeit not in a scientific way.
Some positive points about Ruby:
- The meta programming. You can have methods writing other methods etc.
- Self reference is possible.
- Full object orientation, no duality between value types and reference types.
- Code blocks.
- Ruby on Rails.
- Continuations.
Conclusion: Ruby is definitely something to look out for, and to keep monitoring.
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