Stefan Schmiedl
11/20/2004 12:41:00 AM
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:37:35 +0900,
James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Kaspar Schiess wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I don't know if its been mentioned before on this list, but german Linux
>> Magazine (I think you can buy it in countries like Germany, Austria,
>> Switzerland, Italy and Spain) has a feature on scripting languages in its
>> 4th quartal/2004 issue. One of the languages is Ruby, I am not quite trough
>> reading it, but at least it gives all the important pointers.
>
> I picked up a copy while I was in Germany last month, and was amused to
> see that, among the "scripting" languages discussed, was Lisp.
IIRC, they wanted to produce a special on "special" languages.
Just to show people that there is more than C, Java and Perl.
Right in the middle of the work they stumbled upon our second
book "Produktiver Programmieren", which probably doesn't sell
either but has the same idea behind it.
I'm really all for using different things, just to learn something new.
One of my favourite tools currently is RetroForth (www.retroforth.org),
which (on linux) comes at a whopping 4535 bytes (ELF-executable). This
week I added some stuff to produce XSL-FO files from a relatively
compact description. The standalone executable is about 6kB large
and has "only" the linux kernel as external dependency, IIRC.
It's amazing what you can do with such a small amount of code.
>
>>
>> The articles seem to be written by Armin Roehrl and Stefan Schmiedl.
>
> Yes, the outstanding folks who organize EuRuKo, the European Ruby
> conferences.
>
Thanks, James. But to give credit where it's due, Armin and Michael
Neumann did most of the work.
s.