When you see things like this little .sig I spotted from ruby-talk:
$stdout.sync = true
"rekcah ybuR rehtona tsuJ".reverse.each_byte do |b|
('a'..'z').step do |c| print c+"\b"; sleep 0.007 end
print b.chr end; print "\n"
(Well, I added a little touch myself, having the fever and all...)
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Posted by lasse on March 31, 2005 12:01:50 AM EEST
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Re: How do you know you're dealing with a geeky new scripting language?
...and now I found the owner of the said .sig, one Bill Atkins.
Comment from Lasse on March 31, 2005 12:33:43 PM EEST
Lasse,
I feel groovy will be the only scripting language that we java programmers would be required to learn. I understand that it is not stable yet. but i guess it will eventually get there. Learning ruby makes sense if yes say we want to use ruby on rails. But otherwise i think groovy brings the productivity gains of say python / groovy to jvm?
Comment from karthik on March 31, 2005 6:37:42 PM EEST
That could very well be true, assuming the Groovy developers can deliver on their promises. Then again, it is good to learn programming languages outside your own sandbox every now and then just to keep an eye on what other people do, enjoy or deal with. I'm not really learning Ruby in order to make a living. I'm learning Ruby in order to learn stuff with stress on the word "learn", not on "stuff".
Comment from Lasse on March 31, 2005 7:03:33 PM EEST
Looks like all nifty features in other languages have existed in lisp for ages. I run into such references quite often. I wonder why then lisp did'nt make it big given that most languages are working towards it. I tried it today for sometime and boy the code was so unreadable.
Either way, my obsevations have been that perl, ruby, python and groovy look so much like each other.What has been your experience? Yeah there are few differences here and there but ultimately they all do the same thing in nice crisp manner.
I have to admit that I no longer hold the guy who wrote groovy in high esteem.
I ran into a presentation of his where he was touting some nifty groovy features that have been copied over from ruby/python.
Comment from karthik on April 5, 2005 9:09:38 PM EEST
Yes, Perl/Python/Ruby/Groovy are rather similar in many respects. After all, they're all scripting languages.
Comment from Lasse on April 5, 2005 10:25:05 PM EEST
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