From: Cam <cameron.matheson@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T11:48:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Newbie: Ruby or Java?

Hi,

On 11/28/05, Leslie Viljoen <leslie@camary.co.za> wrote:
> OTOH I'm not sure Ruby is the way to go if you want to produce
> a GUI type application very quickly since AFAIK there's nothing
> in Ruby that allows the ease of dragging some controls on a form
> and setting their properties - like you could do with VB or Delphi.
> VB is a terrible language, Delphi at least has some design to it,
> I'm sure there's RAD type development environments for Java
> although I haven't used them.

You can do this w/ ruby and libglade... but that only applies to the
*nix'es as far as i know.

Cam