From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T22:20:35+09:00
Subject: Re: an alternative for VB using Ruby

On Jul 10, 9:13 am, SonOfLilit <sonofli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is an old japanese implementation of a VB like IDE in ruby (that
> I've never tried) for Windows.
>
> Look in the rubygarden wiki.
>
> But believe me, you don't want VB-ness in your ruby code. Instead, you
> want elegance and easy editing. There is a reason that all popular
> programming languages use ASCII only.
>
> Aur
>
> On 7/10/07, Thilankka Marasinghe <thilankas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to know if theres an alternative to VB.net using ruby.. I mean in
> > terms of dragging and dropping to build applications directly.. so that
> > building apps would be faster in ruby than it already is.
> > Might seem like a silly question but i do not know any better
>
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey, I like Ruby as much as the next guy but "all popular programming
languages use ASCII only" is a bit of a stretch, dontcha think? If you
are talking about __popularity__ then Java and .NET are much more in
the mainstream than Ruby, Perl, Python, et. al. Go look for online
jobs, or in a bookstore or on a college course schedule. If you want
to say "hardcore/historical/expert programming languages" then I might
buy that, since C can definitely join the group. But "all" is a tough
qualifier for my $0.02 US...