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I decided to stretch my brain this semester by doing all the programming and scratchwork for <a href="http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/classes/Spring-2006/csci5421/">the course I'm taking</a> in Ruby.
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My main disappointments in Ruby so far have been the lack of autovivification in multi-dimensional arrays (doing dynamic programming without it is a PITA) and the available documentation not meeting my expectations.
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I've subscribed to the "Ruby" tag in del.icio.us, but the S/N is swamped by Rails hype. Ruby does make me appreciate the "Huffman coding" of Perl. Haven't bothered with threads so far as they're not necessary to the problem domain.
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