From: Damjan Rems <d_rems@...>
Date: 2010-11-13T05:30:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs PHP for the web

Ruby Me wrote in post #959480:
> Thank you guys,
>
> It would be helpful if anyone writes any code in PHP and then writing
> it in Ruby? I want to see the difference and how the code will be less.

I had 15 years of programing after me when I ended my programing carrier 
and got a job as system administrator. My skills were mostly with 
languages with little code to write. I Started with RPG on IBM 
mainframes and ended with Clipper on DOS and windows.

But since programming is like a hobby I tried to learn something new and 
in early 2000 PHP looked like a good language(Java to me is like a 
Cobol. Too much lines about nothing). But I never got really into it. As 
example I had a program which has created dates to schedule Backup Exec 
jobs for a whole year and write result to file. About 60 lines in 
Clipper. It took me about 3 days when I start learning PHP and I ended 
up with 150 lines. But I never did anything sirius in PHP.

Few years later I heard about Ruby. It looked really cool. I had the 
same program written after 4 hours of learning and in 35 lines. And 
after that I didn't done any program again in any other language. 3 
months later I installed rails and done my first web application after 
another month (I knew something about HTML before).

I've been using ruby for 5 years now. And I don't use anything else. I 
script Linux, Windows, web apps with rails. It is so simple. I have 
programmed Intranet application in my company which connects to Oracle, 
MS-SQL, Postgres (my favorite). And thats from the guy who never thought 
that would ever make a program for Internet.

by
TheR

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