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Ready for Ruby

A colleague of mine gave a short presentation about "Ruby on rails". I already looked at Ruby before, but probably not thoroughly enough.

Wat 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 meme 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.

References

• Ruby language.
• Ruby On Rails.
• The Next Paradigm (older meme).
• Beyond Java.