Yeah, but I was asking for real world scenarios, not ivory tower uses you dirty non-pragmatic altdotnetter. ;)
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Justin Bozonier <[email protected]>wrote: > hey man, I was snarkily referring mainly to Scott's comments. I'm currently > using Ruby as a DSL to build a web app using Sinatra and DataMapper (and it > is THE SEX btw). > > I don't think I have the slides. I normally don't use slides in my talks > anymore, I usually try to style them more as conversations. I actually have > been doing some GPGPU research that would be interesting in that context > though. I smell a blog post upcoming! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Ian Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> > [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]> >> [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]> >>> [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]> >>>> [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> <altnetseattle%[email protected]> >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> <http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en> >>>> 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]> >>> [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> <altnetseattle%[email protected]> >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en> >>> 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]> >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> <http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en> >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Ian Davis > <http://innovatian.com>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. > > -- > 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
