From: Phil Roberts <philrob@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T02:19:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

With total disregard for any kind of safety measures "Savut"
<webki@hotmail.com> leapt forth and uttered: 

> 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.
> 

Hardly.

Ruby can be used for shell scripting, GUI application programming 
(there are 3 GUI toolkits available that I know of) and Web CGI 
scripting. It's a very flexible language with a very nice syntax.

The only reason I can think of for choosing Ruby over PHP is the 
Syntax however. It's a lot more object-oriented than PHP4 and very 
easy to learn. But the language is still quite young in terms of 
available libraries. Plus it's a lot easier debugging web apps 
written in PHP.

Basically it all comes down to the fact that PHP is aimed, first 
and foremost, at web applications. And most of it's features are 
tailored with this in mind.

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Phil Roberts | Dork Pretending To Be Hard | http://www.flatnet.net/