RE: [MLUG] text to images?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Isn't a lot of Ruby based on non-free extensions? Or is that a
misconception (possibly based on some other language)?

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Matt Ross wrote:

> I must admit, I've never heard of ruby before.  I use Perl, have been
> begining to learn php, and want to start on python next, but ruby is new to
> me.  I think I'll learn it next then, ruby is my birthstone ;-)
> 
> What's a good site for intro to ruby?
> 
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> 
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Matt Ross wrote:
> 
> > I was refering to the common misunderstanding about perl, that it is some
> > sort of web language.
> 
> Oh, like, wow; that had just not occurred to me...thanks for pointing that
> out.  But while we're on the subject, there was an inordinately
> interesting (to me, anyway) thread on slashdot about so-called
> "lightweight languages", based on a workshop held at MIT.  A conference
> report can be seen at:
> 
>     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html
> 
> I think it is massively important that languages like perl, python, ruby,
> (and maybe even php?) are beginning to get some kind of (grudging)
> attention in the academic community where the lisps, and ML variants
> have been considered the only "real" languages.  It doesn't help anybody
> that perl is pigeon-holed as a "web language", that ocaml is merely an
> "academic language" and that ruby is right out just because its creator is
> Japanese.
> 
> jking
> 
> 
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