On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 03:57, Sharninder Singh wrote: > > I am basically a VB programmer. But I like Linux and trying to move to > Linux. > > There is a language Ruby. I am interested about it. If anybody can help > me. Actually I want to write codes in an environment which give me speed and > save my time to write codes. VB is excellent for this. > > There is Tk and GTk also. I just know the names. If there is anything > which give me the same advantage as in VB then I can try it. Ruby is a good > language but I am not getting confidence with it. > > If anybody interested visit the site of Ruby www.ruby-lang.org > > > > ruby might not be the best choice for someone just starting with programming > on linux. Try basic c/c++ console programming first and then gradually move > on to QT/GTK.
Starting programming in Linux with C/C++ is like learning English starting from Latin!! There are lots of gotcha's, many subtleties (especially in C++) that make learning good/efficient programming in C/C++ diffifcult for a newcomer. My opinion, Python is one of the best languages to get up an running. The syntax is clean and intuitive. The language generally enforces good style and Python gives a nice gentle introduction to OO programming. Though for the last feature, I suppose Ruby is more OO than Python, being based on the Smalltalk family. And if you want to make nice GUI's, Python is the easy way to get up and running - even faster if you use Glade generated UI's ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. -- Jerome K. Jerome -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
