So I spent a good bit of time today with Ruby. I can see how people
who are working in Java might find Ruby to be "simple, elegant, fun"
programming. But for those of us coming out of Rev, I have to say I
thought the Ruby syntax was...well...sorry...ugly.
There were @ and @@ and : and < and # signs strewn all about the Ruby
landscape. And (yipes) curly braces to boot.
I can't for the life of me see how Ruby is better than Python as a
language, really. Ruby is line-oriented so white space isn't
significant like it is in Python but I found that getting used to
white-space significance took about an hour. So there's no big win
there. There are lots of interesting-looking high-level components
for Ruby (they're called Gems...cute) but like Python it uses Tk for
graphics stuff (ugh). Python has a HUGE number of class libraries.
Rails -- a Web app framework for Ruby -- looks very cool but there
are lots of great Web app frameworks for Python, too.
I don't know. One thing I am sure of. I won't be spending any time
with Ruby. I'd rather sharpen Python skills if it comes to doing
server-side stuff Rev isn't up to. So far, I haven't found anything I
want to do that Rev can't.
So Rev remains my safe haven.
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Dan Shafer, Revolution Consultant and Author
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