gabriele renzi
12/3/2004 11:36:00 AM
Jan ha scritto:
> bin liu wrote:
>
>> Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear
>> about it.
>> Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
>> I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it
>> and use it .
>> But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even our country .
>> I'm eager for your advices.
>>
>>
>
> Don't try to describe it. No description really captures the beauty and
> the elegance of the language. Try to show it.
> I got interested in ruby during fosdem 2004, where the presenter (don't
> remember the name) made a distributed application with yaml persistence
> in an hour. (while explaining every step). When I compared both the
> beauty of the code and the time needed to my Java background.. Well, it
> was hard not to get interested in ruby :-)
I agree with this. BTW I think that one of the best way to show ruby is
putting togheter little articles for magazines (both printed and online)
about something soewhat interesting.
Something like "a tiny application to play chess online" or "basic bot"
or "automate this stuff with web service" that people can use for their
own purposes, getting caught in the "mh.. this could be better, I'll
learn a little more ruby.." loop.