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Masters Thesis on Ruby

Suraj Kurapati

2/6/2007 2:50:00 AM

Dear Ruby community,

Last week, I submitted by Masters Thesis[1] on -- to summarize greatly
-- using Ruby to bring agile software development practices like TDD and
BDD to the cold, dark realm of *hardware* development.

I am very thankful to Matz and the community for the Ruby language,
which -- to say the very least -- saved me from the year-long drudgery
of researching and producing the trillionth (read: boring) thesis on
microprocessor caches. :-)

May there be more research and papers on/with Ruby in academia! Fiat
Lux!

[1] http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.o...

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5 Answers

Kaspar Schiess

2/7/2007 8:07:00 AM

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

2/8/2007 2:53:00 AM

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Kaspar Schiess wrote:
> Hi Suraj,
>
>
>> Last week, I submitted by Masters Thesis[1] on -- to summarize greatly
>> -- using Ruby to bring agile software development practices like TDD and
>> BDD to the cold, dark realm of *hardware* development.
>>
>
>
> Solid work! You probably just have created a useful tool!
>
> kaspar
>
Cold, dark hardware? I know they're trying to reduce power consumption
of servers, but cold? :)

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blo...

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.

Suraj Kurapati

2/8/2007 5:33:00 AM

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Cold, dark hardware? I know they're trying to reduce power consumption
> of servers, but cold? :)

Ah, their goals reflect their world, it seems. It is a place so cold and
dark that you shiver with fear and cringe with disgust upon its sight;
for the development techniques it employs are those left behind by the
software world of 10 years ago.

According to one of my advisors, it was not until a few years ago that
the hardware industry finally accepted SCM (version control) systems.
Before that, they refused to hear of such nonsense because file backups
worked just fine!

Shocking. O_O

P.S. This is, of course, a brash generalization! Do correct me.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

2/8/2007 7:18:00 AM

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Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
>> Cold, dark hardware? I know they're trying to reduce power consumption
>> of servers, but cold? :)
>>
>
> Ah, their goals reflect their world, it seems. It is a place so cold and
> dark that you shiver with fear and cringe with disgust upon its sight;
> for the development techniques it employs are those left behind by the
> software world of 10 years ago.
>
> According to one of my advisors, it was not until a few years ago that
> the hardware industry finally accepted SCM (version control) systems.
> Before that, they refused to hear of such nonsense because file backups
> worked just fine!
>
> Shocking. O_O
>
> P.S. This is, of course, a brash generalization! Do correct me.
>
I remember in the days before flash memory firmware, and before even
UV-erasable firmware, when firmware was in good old ROM. Man, it took
days to get anything changed. And every time I complained, I was told,
"Be patient! After all, ROM wasn't built in a day!"

<ducking>


--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blo...

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.

Martin DeMello

2/8/2007 8:06:00 AM

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On 2/8/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> >
> Cold, dark hardware? I know they're trying to reduce power consumption
> of servers, but cold? :)

Superconductors ya us!

martin