On Feb 20, 2007, at 20:59 UTC, Seth Willits wrote: > On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > No. I spent a day learning and working with Ruby once. It was neat > > (especially from a "language theorist" point of view), but not > nearly > > as productive as RB. My first day in RB, I accomplished some real > and > > interesting tasks; the same was not true for me with Ruby. > > Errr.... 1 day with Ruby vs years with REALbasic?
No, the comparison was 1 day with Ruby vs. 1 day with REALbasic. > That said, I don't think you can compare RB to Ruby at all because > they simply have different purposes. REALbasic is an xplat > _application_ development environment, Ruby is not. Comparing them is > rather pointless if you ask me. True; also, Ruby is a scripting language, REALbasic is a programming language. A better comparison would be Ruby vs. Python. > Now when Swordfish comes around... Swordfish is unnecessary. Apparently I'm giving a talk about this at REAL World this year. :) Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
