Mainly Ruby links today: for some reason, they’ve been piling up lately.
I’d never heard the expression ‘Holy Schmoly’ before. Now in two days i’ve read it twice, and both times in the context of computing languages performance. Two times too often, if you ask me. But the posts themselves are interesting (second one doesn’t try Ruby 1.9 though).
To go on in the Ruby vein: Rails 2.0 RC2 is out ! I’ll admit i wait for a proper release before giving it a whirl (from atog).
I’m an admirer of Martin Fowler (and his books). And it appears he likes Ruby: in this post he talks about JRuby and Groovy (a colleague has tried to talk me into trying Groovy, but i’ve never really fancied it somehow: what’s in a name ?)
And an interesting, nearly philosophical article about Ruby: according to Giles Bowkett, Ruby should be approached as an object of beauty. Programming as esthetic enjoyment (through my cousin).
