From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T19:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

> There was a posting in this group that told the story of a PHP 
> application
> rewritten in Ruby with significantly less lines of code plus it was
> considerably faster.  Dunno the ref though.

I'd like to sign up for that claim. Rails[1] was a PHP framework before 
I moved to Ruby. And what a difference. Ruby has so much better support 
for introspection and run-time modification that making a framework 
becomes a whole other ball game.

Equally so for the applications I've developed on Rails, most notably 
Basecamp[2]. They're much more readable, requires far less code, and 
often times is faster.

Note that "faster" is compared to the PHP version of Rails that tried 
its best to make use of the clunky OOP support that language offers. 
I'm sure you can handcode something in PHP without objects that's just 
as fast.

[1] http://www.rubyonrails.org/ (still just a teaser site, more coming 
soon)
[2] http://www.basecamphq.com/
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