From: centrepins@... (Glenn)
Date: 2005-03-21T17:09:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, brother of VB?

Mike

Sounds like you are in exactly the same boat as me.  I've been a VB
programmer since VB2 and really can't get into (or be bothered with!)
either VB.NET or C#.  I have vaguely considered Java as a possible
alternative.

However, most of my programs that I usually write in VB are
project-level front-end interfaces to Oracle database backends.  I'm
starting to move over to the idea that developing these now as web
apps, using something like Ruby on Rails might be the best way to go.

It is a bit of a mind-shift to move from VB to Ruby though - certainly
I'm not easy, but I am persevering.

Glenn


"Mike Cox" <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3a6pkoF69qdjpU1@individual.net>...
> Hi.  I am researching a language to switch to after Microsoft EOL'd classic
> Visual Basic.  Visual Basic.NET is nothing like the old VB.  Having been
> burned by relying on a commercial vendor, I am on a quest to find a VB like
> language that is free from corporate whims.  I went on a computer language
> site that documented the history of computer languages and their lineage.
> 
> It was quite a shock to learn that Ruby may possibly be the brother of VB,
> and that Ruby is the son of Algol 60.  Just a cursery glance over Ruby
> confirmed that my beloved "begin" and "end" are there.  Sharing the same
> genes as a Algol is quite a statement of pedigree.  No wonder 60 percent of
> all programers speak VB to their computers.  And now, my fellow Algol 60
> decendants, I am now close to making Ruby my langauge of choice.  My
> langauge, VB, is dying a cruel cancer of corporate apathy, but now I have
> found its brother so I am rejoicing.
> 
> So my question is, what do I need to know to get started from a VB
> background?
> 
> P.S. Here's the link to the comp. lang lineage chart:
> http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html