Francis Hwang
Ruby
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006; 6:30PM - 8:00PM
IBM Building, 12th Floor, 590 Madison Ave @ 57th Street
After focusing our attention inward on our volunteer meetings in May,
this month, NYLUG looks back out into the world, and what do we see?
{ puts "Hello, World!" }
Ruby is looking back at us. Like most of us, you've probably heard the name
Ruby more and more over the last few years. More recently, you've been
hearing that Ruby has rails. But what is Ruby? How is it different from other
scripting languages, and why should you use it instead of something else?
Just what are Rails?
"Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language.
It combines syntax inspired by Ada and Perl with Smalltalk-like
object-oriented features, and also shares some features with Python,
Lisp, Dylan and CLU. Ruby is a single-pass interpreted language.
Its main implementation is free software distributed under an
open-source license." -
Wikipedia
Please join us on Wednesday June 21 at 6:30pm, as Francis Hwang from
nycruby.org shows us what Ruby is all about, and why it calls itself the
Programmer's Best Friend. Francis is eager to explain Ruby, and answer
your Ruby-related questions.
Next month, we will continue our examination of Ruby, as Ajai Khattri takes
the lid off Ruby on Rails for us, on July 19, 2006.
About Francis Hwang
Francis Hwang now lives in New York City, after growing up in Minneapolis and
stints in Seoul, Ithaca, Federal Way WA, and Barcelona. He divides his professional
time among the pursuits of programming, art, and writing.
Until recently, he was the Director of Technology at Rhizome.org, the premier online
new-media-arts community, and can be regularly seen at
nycruby meetings.
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