[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
Hi folks, If you are a computer linguistic geek or a real programmer/geek at heart (which, I think, is the very reason why you are on this mailing list) you should come to the TSLUG meeting tonight. Ian?s mentioned it already, but here again: he and I are going to spread the word why Ruby

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread mike808
Ruby is an awesome programming language entirely built upon the concept of objects. While I just was astounded and excited when learning Perl (because of its many features OO concepts... How disappointing. Perl certainly doesn't limit it's usefullness only to the Object-oriented elite. IMHO,

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
...I have a question from the (my) lingustic point of view... Perl: $string=hello, world; substr($string, 20) =~ s/world/earth/; #alters $string print $string #output: hello, earth how do I chomp that thing in one line? alex - To

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
sorry again: 20 - 6:-( my gosh... Alexander Horn wrote: ...I have a question from the (my) lingustic point of view... Perl: $string=hello, world; substr($string, 20) =~ s/world/earth/; #alters $string print $string #output: hello, earth how do I chomp that thing in one line? alex

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Ian Monroe
Ruby can be your standard global-function type of language. You don't have to define objects (though all the 'primitives' are still objects, you don't have to think about them as such). But if you want to over-ride the default + method for integers, you can (not that you would to). The way it

[tslug] Re: Meeting tomorrow?

2002-12-04 Thread Nathaniel Green
Yes, we will be having a meeting tonight at 6:30 in VH1232. Nate Peter Snoblin wrote: Do we have a meeting tomorrow? I apologize if this was addressed, but my email was acting up and it appears I missed a few messages. -- Peter Snoblin - http://www2.truman.edu/~pas577/