From: Philip Hallstrom <ruby@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T08:02:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby in a Corporate Environment

> On 4/26/07, Philip Hallstrom <ruby@philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
>> Seems the more languages you know the easier it is to learn others
>> quickly as well
>
> I agree.  But it's also much easier to get confused.  Today I couldn't
> figure out why in the world my calls to trim() would not work in
> Python.  After a while I finally realized I meant to use strip() not
> trim().  I guess working in Python by day and PHP at night is messing
> with my head a bit.

True, but that's the same with switching anything... I usually drive an 
automatic truck... but one day took my wife's stick sedan... I did fine, 
but I had to remember a couple of times that there was a clutch :)

And the bottom line is that if I hired you do to PHP full time you'd be 
de-confused in a day or two.  How long would it take if you'd never even 
seen PHP till start day?

Personally though I think there's something about PHP that is confusing... 
I tend to leave off semicolons these days and wonder why exactly it's 
complaining about a syntax error :)

-philip