From: anonimous <n.thomp@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T11:43:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking of learning Ruby

"Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote in message
news:20030310015217.GB1255@math.umd.edu...
> 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++ :-)
>

I think Ruby would be better in my case then Python, now all I need is a
quick tutorial/introduction. :-)

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