[clue] Good Ruby Tutorial Was: Budding SW Engineers

[Charles W Downing]

The "Pragmatic Programmer" publishers have "Programming Ruby 1.9", which 
seems to fit your bill.  They also have a similar JRuby book.

On 05/07/2012 01:31 PM, Yaverot wrote:
> 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.
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> --- dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
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> From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net
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> Subject: Re: [clue] Budding SW Engineers
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 18:23:43 +0000 (UTC)
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> You could substitute Ruby for Python.
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> If you plan to do systems programming, such as device drivers or kernel work, you want C.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> You could even use Lisp. It has OO capability now.
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Chuck Downing
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