>>>FWIW I just published "An Introduction to Ruby and Rails", the white paper from my pre-con session at Southwest Fox 2010. This paper introduces both the Ruby language and the Rails framework, focusing on their installation and use on a Windows® platform with a perspective geared toward experienced Visual FoxPro® developers. It's available for download from the Fox developers page of my website at http://www.ita-software.com/foxpage.aspx. [snip]
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>>Very nicely explained. It's nice to have Ruby syntax described from a VFP point of view. You would do a favor to Ruby beginners with a VFP background by placing the reference to your article in the UT downloads.
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>>I found your explanation for Ruby symbols especially clear. When you indicate that Ruby references the entries in the symbol table by their position in the table because that is faster than doing a string comparison on their name it makes much more sense than talking about "the thing whose name is" which I have seen before but had no idea what the heck meant.
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>Thanks for the kind words, Alex. It's always gratifying to know that an explanation was well received. Also, I took your suggestion and submitted the paper for inclusion in the UT downloads, so it should show up there soon.

Good. Thank you.