JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby


Google Tech Talks
February, 28 2008



Speaker: Ola Bini
I work for ThoughtWorks Studios, and recently published the book Practical JRuby on Rails at APress. I'm very interested in Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Ruby and the fuzzy lines between languages...







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natlang1 (May 12, 2008 at 7:20 am)
Almost a decade? Lisp is older than your dad. Every dynamically typed, garbage collected, object oriented language that supports higher order functions is arguably "based on" Lisp. That doesn't imply that we should never produce new languages with those features. It's all about the syntax.
SolonBob (March 9, 2008 at 10:00 am)
Actually, no. Ruby has been around for 10 years now. While clearly Ruby has lifted many idioms from Perl directly, but OO, it is more than based on Smalltalk.

As far as Ola Bini, I think you think mistake modesty for lack of experience. Ola is making a presentation since he wrote a book on JRuby. You haven't.
kpriisholm (March 7, 2008 at 3:11 pm)
Dear Anonymous Coward.

No matter if you agree with Ola or not, he is very experienced in a vast variety of languages, and your post taken into account, my guess is, he's a lot brighter that you'd ever dream of becoming, regardless of your level of education.

Not going into a discussion here about pros and cons of Ruby, Python or JavaScript - all are great languages, but just in case you don't know, Ruby has been around since 1995, so cut the BS about 'almost a decade'.
z4hf2c5q6ymgjxk (March 5, 2008 at 5:41 pm)
All the features you naively try to pass of as Ruby's features, have been implemented in a variety of other dynamic languages like Python, Perl, JavaScript, etc. People have been making good use of them for almost a decade now, probably before you wrote your first line of code. Please find someone more experienced to mentor you.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that you are "not an educated nerd" (self-taught?) or it is just a way to cash-in the Ruby hype.

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