On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Lew Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as a matter for curiosity, has anyone fooled around with RUBY as > a second language? Can you offer any comments as to ease & scope of > use vs Python (for example)?
About 2-3 years of delivering apps in Ruby. What Ed said :) Ruby and Rails have a very brief syntax, where a lot of powerful functionality can be expressed in a very curt statement. It's a somewhat different mindset than FoxPro or Python, which I think of as far more 'literate' programming, where we write our sagas. Like Python there are a lot of smart people creating really powerful extensions to the language and its frameworks. Either one of them is a good choice for a primary web development language. Far more important than the technical aspects of the languages are: - whether or not it "speaks" to you - try it, you'll like it! - or not. - whether you can find a good support network - locally or virtually - whether you have the buy-in of the people who pay the bills - some of the worst disasters I've seen have been clients who thrashed from Perl to PHP to Python to Ruby to Erlang to Haskell - languages may develop in Internet time, but it still takes programmers time to learn and go from novice to learner to journeyman to master, and - nine women can't have a baby in one month - this takes time. Far more time than most of us admit. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4uqk7orkmxkfrjpufympb16hggvgfa4j5irjomdydd...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
