From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2010-11-15T20:36:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Vs PHP

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Cool story, bro

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:45 AM, James Vince <me@jamesvince.net> wrote:

> PHP has more lines of code in the actual File than ruby. If you take a
> controller (in Rails) and compare it to a PHP program, PHP has more
> lines of code. However Ruby has libraries to do most of this code for
> you, if you include the libraries that you use Ruby has much more lines
> of code.
>
> But because people who program Object Oriented Code tend to consider
> library code to not part of the actual program (as it is part of the
> API) they see it as "the actual code you write is less".
>
> Having large libraries of code (coupled with the fact that Ruby has a
> slow interpreter) does make Ruby somewhat slower performance wise,
> however a Ruby programer would argue that because Ruby language is more
> efficient that PHP by re-using code and by using symbols where necessary
> instead of strings that makes up for it's slow rendering time.
>
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Tony Arcieri
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