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Amiga Events : Ruby for AmigaOS 4

Posted by eXec on 2006/12/16 18:21:53 (6522 reads) News by the same author

Ruby - a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Grab it from OS4Depot (version 1.8.5).

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spotUP	Published: 2006/12/16 18:56 Updated: 2006/12/16 18:56
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Comments: 1492	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 any chanse that you'll port rubygame too? great to see ruby ported!

Snuffy	Published: 2006/12/16 22:32 Updated: 2006/12/16 22:32
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/06/2006 From: Michigan Comments: 1027	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 Hi eXec ! Thanks for this. I fiddle with it for awhile. I enjoyed Perl port by Andy Broad. Did a few Perl tutorials. I would to learn some Ruby now!

AmigaHeretic	Published: 2006/12/17 6:21 Updated: 2006/12/17 6:21
Just popping in Joined: 12/05/2006 From: Comments: 124	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 Great news. Always good to have more ways to program for Amiga. Good Job!

Atheist	Published: 2006/12/17 8:31 Updated: 2006/12/17 8:31
Quite a regular Joined: 11/28/2006 From: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Comments: 759	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 I see that True Basic is also available. Unfortunately, other than AmigaBasic, AMOS Professional, and some success with AOS CLI commands, I haven't been able to pick up weird layouts for programming languages. I've tried True Basic, and I've seen Blitz Basic code. I think it was True Basic that had like "A++" for increment, and "==" for equal, and I'll have nothing to do with that. Biltz Basic was totally ununderstandable to me. Perl I've seen, and it's totally incomprehensible.

salass00	Published: 2006/12/17 9:34 Updated: 2006/12/17 9:34
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Finland Comments: 1899	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 @Atheist You don't have to use post/pre-increment if you don't want to. You can always write the longer A=A+1 if that is the way you prefer. Ruby is a very nice language IMO. Here is a small number to english function I wrote: http://a500.org/n2e.rb The program runs without problems with the OS4 ruby. The program produces the following output: Quote: 65536 => sixty-five tousand five hundred and thirty-six 15 => fifteen 123 => one hundred and twenty-three 299792458 => two hundred and ninety-nine million seven hundred and ninety-two tousand four hundred and fifty-eight 4294967296 => four billion two hundred and ninety-four million nine hundred and sixty-seven tousand two hundred and ninety-six 18446744073709551067 => eighteen billion four hundred and fourty-six million seven hundred and fourty-four tousand and seventy-three billion seven hundred and nine million five hundred and fifty-one tousand and sixty-seven 1024 => one tousand and twenty-four 503 => five hundred and three 155007 => one hundred and fifty-five tousand and seven

Elwood	Published: 2006/12/17 14:59 Updated: 2006/12/17 14:59
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/09/2006 From: Lyon, France Comments: 1375	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 tousand => thousand No ?

salass00	Published: 2006/12/17 15:18 Updated: 2006/12/17 15:18
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Finland Comments: 1899	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 @Elwood Correct. Thought I fixed that already. Must have forgot to save or something...

Snuffy	Published: 2006/12/17 22:58 Updated: 2006/12/17 22:58
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/06/2006 From: Michigan Comments: 1027	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 hi salass00, Ruby is a very nice language IMO How do run a Ruby program -- xx.rb ? I was expecting a unix shell and see it amiga shell? I'm a little confused with this "miniruby" build.

salass00	Published: 2006/12/18 6:12 Updated: 2006/12/18 6:20
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Finland Comments: 1899	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 miniruby programname.rb When testing programs you've written you should use: miniruby -w programname.rb This enables warnings in the interpreter. No need to use unix shell. For language details you can check the following sites: http://ruby-doc.org/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ (official ruby site)

ssolie	Published: 2006/12/19 21:55 Updated: 2006/12/19 21:55
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Canada Comments: 986	Re: Ruby for AmigaOS 4 Thanks for the port!