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Ruby Conference, O'Reilly Book, and Mascot

Posted by Hemos on from the making-something dept.

swagr writes "Some new and interesting information on the Ruby website.
1: O'Reilly is apparently publishing a translation of "Ruby Pocket Reference" (although this news doesn't seem to be on O'Reilly's site
2: There is a Ruby Conference happening in October.
3: They need some help with a Ruby mascot (1337 gimpists: go nuts)."

2 comments

  1. Ruby Smoobie... by Ocelot+Wreak · · Score: 1
    We don't need no steenkin new computer languages!

    Back to assembler and PICO-like editors, I say!

    And, for the girlie-man programmers, let them eat FORTRAN or (object-oriented) COBOL...

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    "I figure you're here 'cause you need some whacko who's willing to stick his finger in the fan. So who are we helping?
  2. Ruby is Kewl! by grammar+nazi · · Score: 2

    I think that Ruby is kewl. In Japan, Ruby is used more than Python!

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    Keeping /. free of grammatical errors for ~5 years.