Someone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,
but I deleted the email by mistake, so I’m making a public announcement.
It can be found here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
Cheers,
–
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
That’s a good idea. Consider putting it
into the RAA.
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Daniel Carrera” dcarrera@math.umd.edu
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: [ANN] Ruby tutorial download
Someone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,
but I deleted the email by mistake, so I’m making a public announcement.It can be found here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
Isn’t RAA more of an “Application” archive?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:20:41AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
Someone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,
but I deleted the email by mistake, so I’m making a public announcement.It can be found here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/That’s a good idea. Consider putting it
into the RAA.
–
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
“Hal E. Fulton” wrote:
From: “Daniel Carrera” dcarrera@math.umd.edu
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: [ANN] Ruby tutorial downloadSomeone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,
but I deleted the email by mistake, so I’m making a public announcement.It can be found here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/That’s a good idea. Consider putting it
into the RAA.Hal
rubydoc.org, too. 
Dan
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a = [74, 117, 115, 116, 32, 65, 110, 111, 116, 104, 101, 114, 32, 82]
a.push(117,98, 121, 32, 72, 97, 99, 107, 101, 114)
puts a.pack(“C*”)
Someone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,
but I deleted the email by mistake, so I’m making a public
announcement.It can be found here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/That’s a good idea. Consider putting it
into the RAA.Isn’t RAA more of an “Application” archive?
Yes and no.
One of the four major categories is Documentation,
and one of its thirteen minor categories is
Tutorial.
As an aside, I’ve always maintained that the term
“RAA” is a bit of a misnomer. I think that “Ruby
Archive” would be more accurate and more euphonious.
[Non-English speakers: Your word for the week is
“euphonious” – the quality of a sound, especially
a spoken word or phrase , that is pleasing to the
ear. :)]
After all, actual “applications” are very much
in the minority in the RAA. More than 50% of it
is libraries. At a glance, there are 869 projects
in all, and 293 are in Applications.
But the name is probably one of those legacy things
that will not change.
Hal
----- Original Message -----
From: “Daniel Carrera” dcarrera@math.umd.edu
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby tutorial download
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:20:41AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
It can be found here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/That’s a good idea. Consider putting it
into the RAA.Hal
rubydoc.org, too.
The Ruby Documentation Project at ruby-doc.org has a growing collection of
documents, including Daniel’s “Introduction to Ruby”:
Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language
Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language
“Learning Ruby” would be a fine addition.
James Britt
As an aside, I’ve always maintained that the term
“RAA” is a bit of a misnomer. I think that “Ruby
Archive” would be more accurate and more euphonious.[Non-English speakers: Your word for the week is
“euphonious” – the quality of a sound, especially
a spoken word or phrase , that is pleasing to the
ear. :)]
Good word.
I’ve always been a fan of rich vocabulary, instead of the monosylabic
content that seems to permeate popular media.
But the name is probably one of those legacy things
that will not change.
Sigh. I dislike legacy. I still think that we should get the
‘ruby-archive.org’ domain name had have domains:
docs.ruby-archive.org
apps.ruby-archive.org
libs.ruby-archive.org
info.ruby-archive.org
Is there any chance that this might happen? Even if it’s just a mirror of
the less-accurately-named RAA?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:38:05AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
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Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
As an aside, I’ve always maintained that the term
“RAA” is a bit of a misnomer. I think that “Ruby
Archive” would be more accurate and more euphonious.
Perhaps it’s really the Ruby-application Archive… uh,
an archive of applied Ruby… solutions… and such… ;-D
Sorry -
Bill (Ruby Assiduity Archive? 
Kelly
…Astonishing?
…Astounding?
…Authoritative?
…Abundant?
…All-inclusive?
…Ample?
. . . OK I’ll go now … .
From: “Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com
English is to a large extent monosyllabic…
This confirms that Latin is to become #3 in the list after Ruby and
Japanese
If you object to Latin being almost dead, you can stay with Spanish as
(arguably) the closest language }-)
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:45:34AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:38:05AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
As an aside, I’ve always maintained that the term
“RAA” is a bit of a misnomer. I think that “Ruby
Archive” would be more accurate and more euphonious.[Non-English speakers: Your word for the week is
“euphonious” – the quality of a sound, especially
a spoken word or phrase , that is pleasing to the
ear. :)]
I’ve always been a fan of rich vocabulary, instead of the monosylabic
content that seems to permeate popular media.
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batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com
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– Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
EHLO
As an aside, I’ve always maintained that the term
“RAA” is a bit of a misnomer. I think that “Ruby
Archive” would be more accurate and more euphonious.[Non-English speakers: Your word for the week is
“euphonious” – the quality of a sound, especially
a spoken word or phrase , that is pleasing to the
ear. :)]
Nevertheless I don’t like the concept of introducing Greek here.
In German that would be ‘wohlklingend’. Is that ‘well-sounding’ in
English (not found in Webster).
I’ve always been a fan of rich vocabulary, instead of the
monosylabic content that seems to permeate popular media.
You suggest that monosyllabic words cannot have a deep?
‘mankind’ and ‘before’ are written as one word but they are in fact
two words each (man + kind) and (be + fore) so the following is made
up of monosyllabic words only:
‘Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.’
(a famous quote from John F. Kennedy).
Naming something can be a real problem. Once there was a car
manifacturer who decided to call a car ‘MR2’. They soon realized that
the car didn’t sell very good in all french-speaking countries. After
some research the problem became obvious: ‘M eR Deux’ sounds very
similar to ‘merde’ the French word for ‘shit’. They soon did decide
on another name 
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt http://jupp.tux.nu jupp(AT)gmx(DOT)de
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:38:05AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
– John F. Kennedy
“Mauricio Fernández” batsman.geo@yahoo.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20030320221845.GA15594@student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de…
This confirms that Latin is to become #3 in the list after Ruby and
Japanese
A quick lookup reveales “Linear Architecture Transmitted Interchange
Network” - and I thought, Latin was one of these seldom used functional
languages… :-))
http://www.brunching.com/cgi/acronymer.cgi?acronym=LATIN
If you object to Latin being almost dead, you can stay with Spanish as
(arguably) the closest language }-)
Don’t let a french read this; I suspect they might object.
Cheers
robert
I’ve always been a fan of rich vocabulary, instead of the
monosylabic content that seems to permeate popular media.You suggest that monosyllabic words cannot have a deep?
Please do not put words in my mouth. I said that I am a fan of rich
vocabulary, which I am.
‘mankind’ and ‘before’ are written as one word but they are in fact
two words each (man + kind) and (be + fore) so the following is made
up of monosyllabic words only:
The fact that you can trace to origin to polysylabic words to monosylabic
roots does not make them monosylabic. “man kind” does not make sense.
However, “mankind” is a fair word.
It is also incorrect of you to stretch my comment to a ridiculous extreme.
I said that I am a fan of rich vocabulary. You have claimed that I said
that a deep thought must contain polysylabic words.
Naming something can be a real problem. Once there was a car
manifacturer who decided to call a car ‘MR2’. They soon realized that
the car didn’t sell very good in all french-speaking countries. After
some research the problem became obvious: ‘M eR Deux’ sounds very
similar to ‘merde’ the French word for ‘shit’. They soon did decide
on another name
What does this have to do with my affinity of rich vocabulary?
–
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
EHLO
“man kind” does not make sense. However, “mankind” is a fair word.
Maybe the problem is mainly a different definition of what a ‘word’
is.
A nice example of the problem is ‘Werkbank’ (work bench) a word
present in Dutch and German with identical spelling (except for the
case). It is made up of the two monosyllabic parts ‘Werk’ and ‘bank’.
In the Netherlands it can easily be seen as a composed word because
it reads ‘the bench at which you work’. In Germany many people don’t
see it as a composed word because in Germany ‘Werk’ has narrowed down
to ‘plant’ or ‘artwork’. I still call it a composed word.
I am pretty sure that a parser for the German language will need to
see it the same way round as I do…
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt http://jupp.tux.nu jupp(AT)gmx(DOT)de