gnat's Journalgnat's use Perl JournalOn Perl- July 10, 2006 When I said I'm not forgetting Perl I meant it. Allison and I have been adding Perl content to OSCON, so if you haven't checked out the schedule lately then you should give it a gander.We've got Pudge on porting Mac::Carbon to Intel, building Search applications, Live Perl Testing, and the amazing Audrey Tang on the mindbending stuff she's been hacking on. And if you missed Miyagawa's plagger talk at YAPC, check it out at OSCON. It was hilarious in that "this is so evil it's good" way. ...http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/30244?from=rss Ruby- July 10, 2006 I'm so late to the game--matts and others were all playing with Ruby years ago, while I was just scheduling talks on it at OSCON. Now I'm finally getting my feet wet (ok, I'm jumping right in) and it's a blast. My guide: Ruby for Rails by David A. Black. He teaches Ruby a lot like I taught Perl--I keep finding echoes of my Perl classes in his explanations of references, closures, and so on.As for Ruby, well it's true: it's like Perl only easier. I've been working on my coding chops, which...http://use.perl.org/~gnat/journal/30243?from=rss |