IMHO basic PHP is very hard to understand, not easy. Then again, I'm biased... because I think most programming is hard to understand, and awfully suckful. Unfortunately, it's all we have at the moment.
PHP is easy to understand if you've done some C, which isn't terribly easy to understand if you've done NO programming. Ruby is easy to understand if you've done some smalltalk. IMHO, smalltalk (and Objective C, and also Ruby) is easier to understand than C in terms of powerful code that actually does something. IMHO, Ruby and Smalltalk are FAR easier to understand as first languages. The easiest way to prototype things is modification of template code in-place, or generators (they're somewhat equivalent), in my opinion. Just my two cents worth. Julian. On 16/11/2008, at 9:48 PM, weepy wrote: > > I was reading about your future plans for Merb 1.x > > In particular I was interested about the idea of rapid/easy > prototyping and what ideas you had there. > > Ideas that spring to my mind: > > * similarities between very-flat and Sinatra/Camping > * basic PHP is very easy to understand and deploy. > * similarities between ERB and PHP. > > Interested to see what else you have in mind ! > > weepy > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
