Any Ruby/Rails people here?
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Any Ruby/Rails people here?
Just curious... hope I'm not blaspheming, this is a PHP forum after all!
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If I may rant a little ... were Ruby and Python separated a birth!?! They are like two religions separated only by two different flavors of kool-aid (Tab and 'end'!).
They are feature-wise obviously the future. Why the hell doesn't someone just take the best from Ruby and Python and add braces to make it normal!. Then port the best from the Java and PHP libraries and we would all be done.
They are feature-wise obviously the future. Why the hell doesn't someone just take the best from Ruby and Python and add braces to make it normal!. Then port the best from the Java and PHP libraries and we would all be done.
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Heh, http://xkcd.com/297/Kieran Huggins wrote:My next language will be Lisp... now there's a religion!
Many have probably seen xkcd as it's being linked to everywhere, but why not add one more link to the stash
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I'm pretty sure Kieran's already posted that comic.vigge89 wrote:Heh, http://xkcd.com/297/
Many have probably seen xkcd as it's being linked to everywhere, but why not add one more link to the stash
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Lisp has had it chance about twenty times. Even the likes of Martin Fowler couldn't make it popular and moved to Java and now Ruby. Fowler's love of Ruby makes Ruby suspect based on his Lisp history.Kieran Huggins wrote:My next language will be Lisp... now there's a religion!
But honestly, Ruby and Python are soooo much alike -- it is really weird. I am sure it cuts into their popularity They are both great languages, but just not enough like C/C++. My comment had a grain of sincerity to it. If you merged the languages, changed 'def' to 'function' and used braces instead of Tab or end -- I think that derived language would probably take over. It is essentially where both PHP and Java are currently headed.
I don't know how many here are familiar with both Python or Ruby, but here is a side-by-side comparison to show what I am talking about:
http://www.dmh2000.com/cjpr/cmpframe.html
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