From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-01-14T06:07:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie

On Jan 13, 2008 7:59 AM, 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

I went from Java to Ruby.  Ruby suits me conceptually much better.  It
really depends on your purposes.  If your intentions are professional,
I suppose you should learn both (and if you happen to be really
intelligent, at the same time :)  Seriously, though, you can find a
lot of good web articles -- some severely opinionated, some
refreshingly not -- by searching google with phrases like "java ruby
difference" or "java vs ruby"; the former most likely turning up
technical differences, the latter, personal opinions.

hth,
Todd