Ruby Weekly News: 05/08/2003
A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
this week by Bruce Williams.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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xml-simple v1.0.0
Maik Schmidt has released v1.0.0 of xml-simple; xml-simple
offers an easy API to maintain XML (especially configuration
files) and was heavily inspired by Grant McLean’s Perl module
XML::Simple. This release offers a lot of new features and
supports nearly all options of the current Perl version, only
lacking SAX2 support and the so-called ‘strict mode.’
Check out xml-simple([1]).
INTERESTING THREADS
Why is PHP so popular? What can we learn from the PHP camp?
Phil Tomson asked “What can we learn from PHP’s rapid rise to
success?” What resulted was a lengthy discussion touching on
Apache integration, documentation, standard library, marketing,
and everyone’s favorite programming language metaphor…
Mexican restaurants.
Pass-by reference VS encapsulation
Simon Vandemoortele and several others discuss the merits of
various approaches to an addressbook example in this popular
thread.
References