From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T10:52:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking of learning Ruby

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:42:50AM +0900, anonimous wrote:

> I'm interested in a programming language that can be used for anything in
> general, web programming is not to important but I would like to be able
> to create graphical user interfaces with Qt or GTK and do just about
> anything without having to write to much code.

Then Ruby is an excellent choice.  Ruby is inteded as a general purpose 
language.  There are Ruby bindings for Gtk1 and Gtk2.  I don't think 
that there are bindings for Qt though.  Ruby makes a great 
web-programming language, and an excellent general-purpose language.

> Another thing that I think might be important is how good ruby would 
> work as a prototyping language, because I also plan on learning C++, 
> and prototyping can be a good time saver when working with a larger 
> programming language.

Ruby and Python are probably the best languages for prototyping.  
Warning though, after you write your prototype in Ruby you might find 
that it works so well that you won't want to do it in C++ :-)


-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137