From: Tom Karas <Tom.Karas@...>
Date: 2001-12-22T00:14:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29232] Some Questions from a Newbie (no programming experience)

Hello rubiest,

i am willing to learn either a script-language (python, ruby) or a
non-script-language (c++,java,delphi-kylix). 

I found this article: An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl,
Python, Rexx and Tcl for ar search/string-processing program 
(You can find it at:
http://edok01.tib.uni-hannover.de/edoks/e001/327614196.pdf)

And i thougt it would be good to start with python. 

  1. Because of the development speed (as written in the article
(phd-thesis or something))
  2. The intention to run my (still to be written) small GUI app under
Linux and Windows. 
  3. The apparently wide use (see: http://freshmeat.net/browse/160/)

But, I heard about some conceptual flaws of python and i also read here
that ruby is quite similar to c++ (which i maybe will later learn).

My questions are:

 1. Is ruby a good thing to start learning programming even with 
nearly no knowledge

 2. How far is the development of something like Tkinter-ruby 
(i read here also about some flaws of Tkinter and i read about 
the comfort using  wxPython - and that theming like in java 
swing would be better) so that i can start to work and learn 
under windows 2000 and be able to run my app later an linux too.

 3. Are there enough documentation and tutorials online even for a 
no-experience-programmer

 4. Is it true that learning ruby will help a lot for learning c++
later.


Thanks and Best Regards
Tom Karas