On 9/5/07, Michael E. Carluen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any thoughts on Ruby and Python?
I keep trying Ruby but I just can't enjoy it - the syntax just annoys me (I don't like Perl or PHP either) - and Rails relies so heavily on conventions that I find it annoying as well. I can't get all the way through most of the tutorials without getting frustrated at how many times I have to keep switching between an editor and the command line and back because of all the script/generate and rake stuff. Its all so incredibly clunky... Maybe it's because I really don't like code generation... I don't like Python much either. I can't really point at anything about the language that bothers me but it I just get bored working through any of the tutorials and the language just makes me yawn :( Programmers I respect seem to like Groovy and Grails so they're on my list to look at. Partly I'm a bit jaded about languages... I learned a lot of different languages at university (I think I had just over a dozen languages under my belt by the time I graduated in 1983) and so most of the languages that have been created in the last ten years just don't excite me... As for FORTRAN (Dinner!), I love the fact that spaces are irrelevant and you have to parse ahead an arbitrary amount to figure out what a statement means: do10i=1.3 do10i=1,3 The first statement is an assignment (of the value 1.3 to the variable do10i) whereas the second statement is a loop (for i = 1 to 3 do statements down to the label 10). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287882 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
