Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Terry Moore
Interesting... a nice reference for all those bridgesupport method parameters :) Its nice but not what hit me about ruby... especially this http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/ persevere until dwemthy's array. classes inhereting from a functions gave me a headache :) I have gone fr

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Morgan Schweers
Greetings, Yeah, I remember being shocked when I poked at a 'method_missing' kind of thing on Objective C and realized that it was totally doable... I had a little fun with it, before punting and going back to a language where it's easy. :) Check out: http://goo.gl/bz50U -- Morgan On Thu, Mar

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Massicotte
On Mar 31, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Terry Moore wrote: > I for one would like to see some examples of objc meta programming. Here's a good place to start looking. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCRuntimeGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html In particular, the

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Terry Moore
I for one would like to see some examples of objc meta programming. Standard ruby is built with c are you saying c has some meta programming capabilities because of this. An example like attr_accessor. I know objc 2 now has properties. I also know some aspects of ruby are scary 'eval' and re o

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Massicotte
On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Terry Moore wrote: > Well it would appear that Macruby is just not ready for real development. > > I for one have some faith that Macruby is good enough now and will be > language of choice in the future. > > There are no barriers to you mixing external framework

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Terry Moore
Well it would appear that Macruby is just not ready for real development. I for one have some faith that Macruby is good enough now and will be language of choice in the future. There are no barriers to you mixing external frameworks or adding objc classes. Ruby as a language has many feature

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Thomas R. Koll
Am 31.03.2011 um 10:26 schrieb Jean-Denis Muys: > > I will be blunt: stay away from MacRuby and go with Objective-C. I say, if you don't know either Ruby or Objective-C yet, stay away from MacRuby. All those ruby dev who like me are most likely coming from webdevelopment, dive into this new wor

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Eloy Durán
Well put, sir. Well put. Met vriendelijke groet, Eloy Durán On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Jean-Denis Muys wrote: > > I will be blunt: stay away from MacRuby and go with Objective-C. > > Before I get burned at the stake on this list, let me explain why. This stems > from an assumption I made f

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten
Jean-Denis Muys wrote: > Bryan Harrison wrote: >> >> I've decided to use an upcoming sabbatical to teach myself OS X and iOS >> programming. [...] >> [T]oday's million dollar question is Objective-C or MacRuby? [...] > > I will be blunt: stay away from MacRuby and go with Objective-C. > [...] >

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 51

2011-03-31 Thread Jean-Denis Muys
On 31 mars 2011, at 05:56, Bryan Harrison wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:43:27 -0700 > From: Bryan Harrison > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MacRuby-devel] Tyro Needs Ruby vs. O-C Advice > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > >