[clue] Good Ruby Tutorial Was: Budding SW Engineers

[David L. Willson]

Can you wait until Saturday, June 16th?

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This is a good time for a r3volution.

----- Original Message -----
> Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for something to
> learn Ruby?  I know some programming, but I'm no god, I'm not
> interested in web programming, and I prefer test-driven.
> 
> 
> --- dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net
> To: CLUE's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org>
> Subject: Re: [clue] Budding SW Engineers
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:23:43 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> You could substitute Ruby for Python.
> 
> If you plan to do systems programming, such as device drivers or
> kernel work, you want C.
> 
> If you are going to do embedded systems, I think Forth is still used
> in some of them, due to memory constraints. Not everything has
> megabytes of memory.
> 
> For systems beyond a certain complexity, you probably want to use an
> object-oriented language, like C++ or Java. I don't know if
> functional languages, such as Haskell or Erlang, fit a particular
> set of problems particularly well.
> 
> You could even use Lisp. It has OO capability now.
> 
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