From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-11-29T09:12:29+09:00
Subject: Re: what to do, what to do..

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> Dirk Meijer wrote:
>> hi everyone!
>> here's my problem..
>> Ruby's great (not really a problem) and i've learnt quite a bit, produced
>> four fairly small programs and now i want to move on, i want to grow beyond
>> console windows, into the real application world..
>> but i don't know which way to go..
>> i've considered rails, but i don't really like web development, so i 
>> figured
>> i might want to learn a gui, but i don't know which to chose, i failed with
>> tk, and i'm wondering what you would recommend...
>> greetings, Dirk.
>> 
>
> What's wrong with console apps? I've made a good living programming for 22
> years and never wrote a web app or a GUI app. Think engineering and math
> apps. Think reporting applications. Servers. Programs that convert data in
> format A to format B.

this from the man who wrote rmagick.  i love it ;-)

-a
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