Brian Chrisman wrote: > Sam Phillips wrote: > > So has anyone been playing with Ruby on Rails? What do > > people think? > > 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.
Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. Also, [properly implemented] iterators are just plain sexy. > It would need some compelling comparisons to existing > imperative, object oriented languages like perl, php and > python to make it worth while. I was introduced to Python by a Perl guru in comp.lang.perl.misc. I was then introduced to Ruby by a Pythonista in comp.lang.python. They're all worthwhile languages. You only have to specialize in one or two, but the others are worth a look. I'll just pretend you didn't mention php. :) Tim _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
