Comments on: Ruby 1.8 (today) vs C# 3.0 (some future date)

By: Iterators, LINQ deferred execution and prime numbers computation - Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#]

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:49:07 +0000

[...] about what a multi-language platform bring to the mainstream development. Some could say that Ruby was the initial starter but nobody can deny that LINQ is really really [...]

By: C# Online.NET Editor

C# Online.NET Editor — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:06:14 +0000

I wish you would write an article for us on this topic. Keep up the good work.

C# Online.NET Editor
http://en.csharp-online.net/

By: lui

lui — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:16:25 +0000

what about the more compact ?
(from s in names
where s.Length == 5
orderby s
select s.ToUpper()).Wl();

where Wl is an extension method that prints all the IEnumerable to the console ( i think this is the first extension method that every programmer has been writing after the first c# beta ).
I like ruby, in c# i took many ideas from it. Now in c# i write n.times 4 a for and list.Each( lamdda ) to apply a method to a collection.

By: Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Programmer Intent or What you're not getting about Ruby and why it's the tits

Wed, 23 May 2007 06:55:15 +0000

[...] jury is still out on all these technologies. Hedge your bets and learn as much as you can. There’s more than one way to express yourself. Give it a [...]

By: Jacob Carpenter

Jacob Carpenter — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:41:19 +0000

I threw together a table comparing Ruby’s current Enumerable Mixin to equivalent C# 2.0 and 3.0 methods at http://jacobcarpenters.blogspot.com/2006/06/rubys-enumerable-mixin-again.html.