Where's a good place to go to start learning Ruby?
On 11/7/05, Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/7/05, Bogart Salzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I would be curious to hear from someone who actually knows Python/ > > Ruby and Perl. Which one would he/she rather use to accomplish > > typical tasks of varying scopes? Forget benchmarks and keystrokes for > > a moment. Which one would he/she rather use? > [...] > > Personally I would not want to use Python. Their attitude towards > closures makes inconvenient a family of techniques that I use. YMMV > as to whether that matters to you. > > Between Perl and Ruby, I believe that raw programming is more > productive in Ruby but it is missing CPAN. So if I wanted to build > something complex which there isn't much prior art for, then I'd be > inclined to recommend Ruby. But for smaller jobs, Perl wins because > you don't have to write significant pieces. > > Cheers, > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
