From: luke <lduncalfe@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T09:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

having just started delving into ruby on rails having come from php, i can
recommend it. you're looking at using this new programming language for the
web by the sounds, right? php is great for loose scripts, and i plan to keep
using it for websites where a stitch of php will save time. but having once
put together a fully feature laden shopping cart in php (wasn't actually
that hard) i would now want to do something like it in rails if i had to
start again. for the large dynamic, and particularly database driven,
website, rails is winning me over. jeez, my heart palpitated with joy when i
discovered 'pagination'! basically the whole division of the content into
pages and the links to view other pages was done in 3 short lines. i'm still
learning rails but already the bits i've encountered so far will save _lots_
of time and unnecessary debugging.

and another reason i chose ruby was because it was tagged as an 'easy to
learn' language, certainly one of the more sensible languages around at the
moment. my initial worry was that 'easy to learn' would translate to a
baby's language. but no .. it's powerful and has depths of libraries.



"SomeDude" <somedude@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:h2XCe.22546$yC5.810@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
>