[Freecats-Dev] Abour Ruby (RESEND)

Thanks a lot for the link, Marc. Good stuff.

I started w/Perl a while back for all the reasons given by Dan. I remember
falling in love (relatively speaking) w/Perl. I put together a few lines
and low and behold my script ran. Ended up creating an online Translation
Request form for my company. A month later, I could not understand my code.

That's when my search began for that something else. I was almost convinced
it would be Python, since everything I had heard about it seemed to match my
needs: easily-learnable, structured, maintainable, and object-oriented. But
to be sure, I went on a month-long investigation of all scripting languages
I could find. Ruby's little head kept popping up time and time again. I
tried it and was immediately hooked :) My first "baby" script:
http://www.danielrod.com/Parse_ltf.rbw, http://www.danielrod.com/Readme.txt.

So, where many "enlightened" folks (at least in their own minds) followed
the Perl --> Python --> Ruby path, I skipped Python because I found Ruby
early enough in the game. (Some make it as far as Python:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882)

Okay, enough of that ramble. I admit that there are many more resources for
Perl & Python, and the more I dig into scripting for localization, the more
I see the "need" for these langs. Too much good info out there, not to
mention existing code. So I'm perfectly content w/the use of Perl and/or
Python, even if it means having to learn (or relearn) them. Some
potentially useful stuff:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631234330

http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/

Cheers,

--Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Prior" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Freecats-Dev] Abour Ruby

> I agree with Dan that Perl is an excellent choice, for the reasons he's
> given. I sometime wish I'd learnt Perl rather than tcl/tk, although much
the
> same also applies to tcl/tk.
>
> On the subject of Perl and translation, this is an interesting link:
>
> http://pithekos.net/writing/scripting_in_translation/
>
> Marc
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From:	Daniel G. Rodriguez
Subject:	[Freecats-Dev] Abour Ruby (RESEND)
Date:	Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:02:57 +0200