Sam Phillips wrote:
I've bitten the bullet and been messing around with Ruby on Rails for
work recently and have been very pleased.
So has anyone been playing with Ruby on Rails? What do people think?
http://www.rubyonrails.com
I'd be interested in hearing a more informed opinion... but basically it
appears to be automatic object wrappers for your database objects in Ruby...
I couldn't really find a compelling reason to learn more about ruby
though... I applied CJ Djikstra's adage (paraphrased) 'If a programming
language doesn't change the way you think about programming, it wasn't
worth learning.' I haven't heard a lot of 'oh wow' comments from ruby
newbies.. more like 'neat language' comments. It would need some
compelling comparisons to existing imperative, object oriented languages
like perl, php and python to make it worth while.
Right now, I write xslt code to generate stuff that I think has similar
features to RoR, but kind of language independent... so I'm definitely
interested in hearing what kind of features you like out of RoR... might
give me some extra ideas...
These days, I'm trying to learn more about functional program design
using haskell etc... so like... if there are any people with functional
programming experience willing to discuss it, I'll buy beer.
There's another language I've been looking at lately called o:xml
(www.o-xml.org) which is an XML-syntax imperative OO language, which
gets transformed into either java or C++ at your liesure.. (I'm betting
support for other languages wouldn't be too difficult to achieve.) From
what I can tell, all of its variables/entities suppot an xpath querying
interface... could be very useful for dealing with deep data
structures.. :-)
but enough of my prattle...
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