From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T23:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: an alternative for VB using Ruby

Java and .NET have GUI builders, but still store the interface plan in
ASCII that can be read and edited, I think... Actually, sorry, I'm not
that sure about .NET.

And of course there is VB which is popular, so I'm wrong.

Aur

On 7/11/07, gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
>
>