From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T08:47:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

On Monday 18 July 2005 5:40 pm, SomeDude wrote:

> I'm interested in learning programming and have messed around with PHP for
> a little while.  I've been hearing a lot about Ruby/Ruby On Rails.  I'm
> interested in a language for an absolute beginner...is Ruby/Ruby On Rails a
> good way to go or are there better languages for starters?

Ruby is a very fine language from which to learn programming.

Ruby on Rails is simply a web development framework built using the Ruby 
programming language.

Start learning Ruby first.


Kirk Haines