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[NMLUG] Ruby
> Have been doing some good work with Ruby these days. Anybody else out
> there as impressed as I am? I just bought a book about Rails and
> haven't started it, but the core Ruby language is so much clearer than
> Perl that in a comparison I'd have to call Perl a has-been except for
> CPAN. Thoughts?
Yeah, I've been using Ruby for several years now, too. I don't do as much
programming as I used to (as a full-time mom), but when I do, I use Ruby even
though I grew up on C++ and Java. It's faster for me to write something in
Ruby (even though I don't know all the function names and parameters of the
top of my head) than in my "native" languages of C++ and Java, because it
just makes so much sense. It's easy to debug, and the online documentation
is good, too. And when I go back and look at code I wrote a long time ago, I
can easily understand it. Half the time when I don't know how to do
something, I just guess the syntax and it works.
Anyway, I'd recommend people just try it and see if it works for them. It's
saved me a lot of time!
--
Andrea Landaker
http://qirien.icecavern.net
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