From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T01:53:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 01:46:30 +0900
Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Savut wrote:
> 
> > Ruby and PHP are two differents thing.  Ruby is used for command
> > line program supporting user input and run just as batch file or
> > linux shell script do.  PHP run embedded on a webpage and it main
> > purpose is for website development.
> 
> True, but not completely true.  Things like mod_ruby and eRuby let
> one embed Ruby into HTML, and there is a wealth of different web
> application frameworks sitting over on RubyForge for a person to
> chose from.
> 
> I personally use Ruby for almost all of my dynamic web page / web
> application development.  It works fantastically well.

Quite.  I highly dislike doing web stuff that leaves the functionality
tied to the web... that means either in the CGI or some embedded code.
PHP isn't too easy to make a backend with.

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Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

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