Archives by Tag 'ruby'
"Salute #{@Ruby}!"
By rnaufal - Last updated: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Some times ago I had to parse a XML messages’ file to produce some i18n properties files.
I decided to try it with Ruby, mainly because of two reasons:
I’m continuosly exploring some dynamically-typed languages, like Python and Ruby
I wanted to try the conciseness of programming with closures
So, I used the REXML API to process the XML [...]
Twitter on Scala Interview
By rnaufal - Last updated: Monday, April 27, 2009
There is a nice interview with the Twitter development team on Artima about using Scala in production on Twitter code. The team talks about some issues and facilities regarding the chose of Scala to develop Twitter’s queueing system and how Scala affected the team’s programming style.
My personal highlights:
And Ruby, like many scripting languages, has trouble [...]