[nylug-talk] TODAY! NY Linux Users Group Meeting 6/21: Francis Hwang on Ruby Programming Language

[Ron Guerin]

REMINDER: Meeting is today, RSVP closes at 4:00pm!

Wednesday June 21st, 2006
6:30pm-7:30pm (stammtisch after 8:15pm)
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency

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                          Francis  Hwang
                               -on-
                   The Ruby Programming Language

  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.

Swag (Give Away) - After the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be
  given away.

Stammtisch
  After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
  located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
  Northeast corner.

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