Justin, Have you leveraged Ruby? If so, how? When I was referring to DSLs, I was mainly referring to Rake, Albacore, RSpec, and the like.
On a side note, did you post your code for your "Decoupling Temporal Dependencies" talk last year? I have been meaning to look it up. Thanks, Ian On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Justin Bozonier <[email protected]>wrote: > Well all programming languages are a DSL for getting things done on the > CPU... Ruby would also be useful for systems programming. A GUI (be it web > ui, system gui fx, or text file, or... etc) comes in all flavors. > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Paul McCallick <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Here's another question: What's going on with IronRuby? The marriage of >> .net and Ruby seemed really promising, but I hear MS abandoned it. JRuby >> and Groovy need a competitor. >> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ian Davis <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I have seen more an more .NET developers moving to Ruby over the last >>> couple years. I have picked up a couple of Ruby books and I like the >>> language. Many times I am coding in C# and thinking that it would be a lot >>> easier in Ruby to do XYZ for some small piece. However, I have not seen >>> where I could actually leverage Ruby as a primary language. Is >>> Ruby relegated to web sites, DSLs, and scripts? With C#, I can write >>> applications, services, web services, graphical simulators, games, and more. >>> >>> What is out there that can be done in Ruby? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ian Davis >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> --Paul >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- Ian Davis http://innovatian.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
