I’m reading the news on Twitter that a remarkable and wonderful thing has happened in the world of Ruby web developers: Rails and Merb are going to merge. Here are announcement posts from DHH and Yehuda Katz. And here is the requisite humorous site tracking whether the two are combined. As Matz says (by way […]
Month: December 2008
Many people approaching a new language, particularly a new Lisp, often explore the new language by attempting to implement examples and exercises from canonical Lisp texts. Paul Graham’s On Lisp, Peter Siebel’s Practical Common Lisp, and Abelson and Sussman’s SICP are ususal suspects. I’m not going to attempt any large-scale “translation” of SICP into Clojure, […]
I haven’t posted about Ruby in a while, in part because I’m excited about learning Clojure and (possibly) Haskell with a bunch of fellow language geeks (er, software professionals). But I do >50% of my daily work in Ruby, and I do think about it a lot. Today I was reminded about how much useful […]