From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T00:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie

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Back in school they taught us how to code web application in Java, which
entailed learning the J2EE technology set.  It was a lot of work to do
something very simple, and it wasn't very fun.  Frankly, I wouldn't ever
want to do it again.

I've not played with PHP so I can't tell you much about that.

I have been doing Ruby on Rails now for a little over a year and I do
recommend it.  It's fun, easy to learn, and is a pretty good gateway into
the Ruby language (assuming you looking under the hood).  Give it a shot.  I
think you'll like it more than Java.

James H.

On 1/13/08, Kara Cruz <bloodredoscar@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am en experienced programmer, I have been using VB since I have
> started programming.  I wanted to shift to web programming but I dont
> know which programming language to start with. Somebody told me that
> Ruby is a very good programming language that I can start learning.  I
> have friends and they told me that I start with JAVA instead, Now I am
> asking for your help so that I can be enlightened. Can I be a good web
> programmer or develop my own web application by only learning Ruby? Or
> do i need to start with JAVA and then Ruby?  Please Help
>
>
> Thanks a lot...
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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