[kwlug-disc] A Linus Torvalds quote to make your day

[Doug Moen]

Ok, weird language. I just got through methods, blocks, procs, &, and yield. I now see how a very strange feature of Swift (trailing closures) was copied from a much worse feature of Ruby. I'm more interested from an historical / anthropology perspective at this point.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I feel your pain. I tried to review the "Poignant Guide", a few years 
> ago and it was also over my twee-threshold.
>
> It fell in to that category of: I understand other people will like this 
> but it is not for me. :)
>
>
> If you are still interested in giving Ruby a try, the official Ruby 
> website doe have a list of resources.
>
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/
>
> Some of the ones that look like they might be good include:
>
> * Learn Ruby the Hardway, is more exercise focused
>    - https://learnrubythehardway.org/book/
> * wikibook has a tutorial
>    - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming
>
>
> The Ruby on Rails Guides are also pretty good for getting starting, just 
> doing something with Ruby.
>
>   https://guides.rubyonrails.org/
>
> They don't teach you Ruby specifically, but if you went the "Getting 
> Started with Rails" you are exposed to a bunch of Ruby patterns.
>
> https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
>
>
> Good luck! And feel free to email me with any questions.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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> On 2022-11-09 09:50, Doug Moen wrote:
>> I once tried to learn Ruby, using the allegedly top rated guide for 
>> beginners: Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. But a lot of the book read like 
>> this:
>> http://poignant.guide/book/chapter-2.html 
>> <http://poignant.guide/book/chapter-2.html>
>> so I didn't get far. Ruby remains a mystery.
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Jason Eckert wrote:
>>> "the Ruby people, strange people" - Linus Torvalds
>>> Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlWx7oRk&t=1068s 
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlWx7oRk&t=1068s>
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