[BBLISA-announce] July BBLISA - Ruby: More Batteries, Fewer Brackets

[John P. Rouillard]

Hello all:

Our next BBLISA talk will be:

Title:     Ruby: More Batteries, Fewer Brackets

Presenter: Aaron D. Ball - Broad Institute, Research Computing Group
           Senior Systems Analyst

Date:      Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Room:      MIT E-51, Room 145

Ruby may be most familiar as the language behind the Rails web
framework, and Perl as the "Swiss Army chainsaw" that no sysadmin can
live without, but they have a lot more in common than you might
think. Ruby comes out of the box with a great set of sysadmin tools,
from text processing to Unix system interfaces to TCP servers, and has
a syntax about as terse as Perl but with object-oriented and
functional-programming idioms that make your code easier to write and
understand. Whether you're new to scripting or you've been typing line
noise since 1987, this talk will show you another way.

I hope to see you there.

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John Rouillard
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