Please join us for our next meeting on Oct. 21st where Paul Bennett will give his Smalltalker’s perspective on Ruby based on his recent experiences.

The presentation starts at 7 pm , however there is an open house from 6:30.  Presentations are generally up to 1.5 hours after which most of us go to a local pub and continue the discussion there.  Our meetings are opened to the general public , so bring a friend.

Bio and abstract provided by Paul below:

Bio:

Hi, I’m Paul Bennett, president, janitor and teaboy of Prajna Inc, an
independent software consulting firm based in NYC. I’ve been building
software systems for over 25 years, and have extensive experience in
the architecture, building and specification of custom, large-scale
enterprise IT systems, mostly in Smalltalk. My clients have included
MorganStanley, Keyspan/National Grid and JPMorganChase. I’ve also had
major exposure to C/C++, and have also built a couple of Java
projects. I’m currently oriented to programming in Ruby and Erlang.

Abstract:

“From Smalltalk to Ruby – and back again ?”

Ward Cunningham once said “I always knew Smalltalk would make a
comeback, but I didn’t know it would be called Ruby”. Is Ruby really
the new Smalltalk? In this talk, I’ll introduce Ruby and it’s context,
explore some of it’s more interesting features and defects, and
describe what I think Smalltalk, and the Smalltalk community, might
offer it.