From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-11-17T18:59:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs PHP for the web

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:30 PM, lkfken <alpha.azieru@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 3, 5:49 pm, Ruby Me <i_bas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I am not here to say that PHP is better or the opposite, I am here to
> >> ask, how web development in Ruby compared to PHP. Does Ruby use the same
> >> tools? for example MySQL and Apache?
> >>
> >> And the most interesting point, which language can create a web
> >> application with less code? (I am talking about the languges not the
> >> frameworks).
>
> > I wrote programs in Assembly.
> > I wrote programs in BASIC (i know...but it was considered IN during
> > the 70s/early 80s), then PASCAL, JAVA, and now Ruby.
> >
> > If you have develop programs in Assembly before, then you'd know you
> > have write so many lines in order for it to do so little...
> >
> > Thus comparing number of lines is really pointless, because if you
> > want, you could add a lot more lines yourself by not using any
> > "standard libraries"
>
> Interesting tidbit: research has shown that developers have roughly
> the same productivity in lines of code per day _independently of
> programming language_.  From that automatically follows that with more
> preproduced code at your hands (either in libraries, interpreters or
> compilers) your overall performance increases.
>
>
Though you take a hit learning how to use the preproduced code. I have spent
a lot of time failing to learn libraries and conventions.

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