From: James Britt Date: 2006-03-27T03:09:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Areal noob question Ryan and Kate Huff wrote: > Thank you very much for your insight. As far as language maturity goes, > Ruby is technically older than PHP if you count it's Japanese heritage. I > truly love PHP and I REALLY love Java. Could you summarize what you love about PHP and Java? > > Ruby is yet to offer the more advance features as JAVA or PHP in my opinion > but it has the basics covered and now is the time to strike with Ruby in my > opinion, and ride the wave to the 2nd and 3rd versions. What are the advanced features you believe Ruby lacks? (Seriously. I'm not trolling or asking for a flame war; I'm genuinely curious how different people perceive and evaluate programming languages.) -- James Britt "A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it." - Len Bullard