Announce: Meeting April 1st.

[Alan Dayley]

The next PLUG-Devel meeting is April 1st.  And that's no fool's joke!

What: PLUG-Devel Meeting
When: Thursday, April 1, 2004 at 19:00 (7:00 PM)
Where: Adtron Corporation, 3710 E. University Drive, Suite 4, Phoenix, AZ
Topic: The Ruby Programming Language

Check the PLUG web site at the following link under Development Group 
Meeting for instructions on how to get there.
 
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1&categories=General+Plug+Questions&parent_id=0#3

Chris Gehlker will be presenting one of the newer scripting languages on 
the scene: Ruby.  This looks like the home page for some pre-reading: 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ and Chris has supplied the following about 
his planned presentation and himself.

About Ruby:

Ruby - the Programmers Best Friend is an object oriented scripting 
language that emphasizes clarity, doing the intuitive thing, and above 
all fun. While it bears a superficial resemblance to Perl, its semantics 
are very much those of smalltalk. This makes it it very suitable for 
quick and easy OO. The underlying model is very pure OO but it has many 
operators that are semantic sugar for the corresponding methods so 
procedural code will generally work, at least for simple things. In my 
talk, I want to present some very easy examples of Ruby and then hit the 
more unique features such as CLU like closures, blocks, Mix-Ins, and run 
time class extension. I will also talk about the Ruby community, Ruby 
portability, the Ruby - C interface, Scripting applications with Ruby 
and the proposal for a Ruby version of Linux.

About Chris

Chris Gehlker has been messing about with computers so long he can 
recall building LP models in Fortran. He is an enthusiastic Ruby user. 
He is the author of RubyStudio, a Ruby IDE for Mac OS X. His current 
Ruby interests include, a game written in Ruby called SCO: The Game of 
Intellectual Property and Ruby AL, an extension of Ruby for scripting 
Open and MS Office.