On Friday 22 September 2006 08:52, Peter Machell wrote: > > Now, observe the power of RoR as development platform: > > http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts > > Damn, I bought the O'Reilly's book on Python.
"the main reason to learn a new language is to learn to think in new ways" (don't remember who said it, but it is so true) If you have learnt Python, you can "learn" Ruby in less than one weekend and viceversa - some 90% are almost interchangeable If you have learnt a dozen or so different languages, you might even *master* Ruby in a weekend. I will still continue to write all my system administrationscripts that are too complex for bash scripting in Python - mainly because I can trust the assumptions that on all the computers I have to deal with Python is already installed Read why's guide to Ruby - it is entertaining (if you like Monty Python style humor): http://poignantguide.net/ruby/http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ (in fact I never have read a more entertaining "booklet" on programming). Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
