From: "Ara.T.Howard" Date: 2005-07-21T22:14:16+09:00 Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language? On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Brian Candler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:36:45PM +0700, Lothar Scholz wrote: >> BC> BTW, has anybody written a summary page comparing the features of Ruby to >> BC> languages like OCaml, Haskell, Eiffel, Smalltalk? (Explanations in terms of >> BC> doing X in Ruby versus X in those languages would be useful). Googling turns >> BC> up a lot of interesting-looking but broken links :-( >> >> I doubt that a simple X vs. Y feature will help you in any way. >> >> All of them have concepts, implementations and ideas behind them that >> you only can find by looking at the language in detail and trying it >> out on at least a non trivial example. > > OK, a sample application implemented in all those languages then, with a > commentary highlighting what makes each one tick. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ and so much more. > I did come across a broken link that sounded like it would do this, and then > managed to get it via the Way Back Machine: > http://web.archive.org/web/20020806212735/http://w3.one.net/~jweirich/oostuff/ > > A pretty simplistic example, but interesting nonetheless. Ocaml code, in > particular, looks more familiar than I would have expected. it does doesn't it. suprised me too. cheers. -a -- =============================================================================== | email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | phone :: 303.497.6469 | My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. | --Tenzin Gyatso ===============================================================================