San Francisco Perl Mongers presents:

RUBY FOR PERL PROGRAMMERS

a talk by Paul Lindner
(co-author of The mod_perl Developer's Cookbook)
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Time: 8:00 p.m.

While not nearly as popular as Pokemon or Hello Kitty, the Ruby language is one of the latest Japanese imports that's well worth learning.

Ruby is a general-purpose, object-oriented, thread-safe language conceived and created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in Japan around 1993 or so. Whereas Perl was originally created by mixing awk, sed, and the unix C library, Ruby is an interesting mixture of Perl, Smalltalk, CLU, LISP, and C.

My talk will give an overview of Ruby with special emphasis on how you can use your knowledge of Perl to quickly understand the "Ruby Way". Topics to be covered include:

• Basic syntax and semantic features that map directly from Perl (variable names, regex, etc.
• Ruby object-oriented features and how they compare to Perl's OO
• Ruby modules and how they compare with Perl's concept of modules
• Groovy Ruby features that may or may not show up in Perl 6..
  • iterators
  • built-in threading
  • Operator overloading
  • Exceptions
• Ruby's CPAN: RAA - Ruby Application Archive

For more information about attending this talk please see http://sf.pm.org/

I'll be there... Anyone else interested?

-Blake