From: mark sparshatt Date: 2005-01-07T21:42:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Re: [BOUNTY] Shopping cart ... Sarah Tanembaum wrote: > Martin DeMello wrote: > >> Sarah Tanembaum wrote: >> >>> Just to rephrase it, since Web Application such as shopping cart has >>> many dependencies, Ruby is not ready for such application. Unlike >>> PHP, Ruby lack many dependencies to build a descent web/graphical >>> application. Is correct statement? >> >> >> >> The thing is, quite apart from the language, there are a bunch of fiddly >> details you have to keep in mind when writing a shopping cart. My guess >> is that no one in the ruby community felt it'd be sufficiently >> fun/interesting to go through this particular exercise; the php >> community being so much bigger meant it was likelier to include someone >> with an interest in shopping carts. >> >> martin > > In other word, it is a bit tedious to do it in Ruby, whereas in PHP > language(and its library) has more complete tools/utilities to do far > fun/interesting projects/excercise - which include shopping cart, > cataloging, content management, interactive database apps, etc... No, in other words it's a bit tedious to do in any language. Since the Ruby community is smaller than the PHP community there hasn't yet been anyone sufficiently interested in shopping cart applications to go to the effort of writing one. -- Mark Sparshatt