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I think there's something about interpreted languages that makes a
psychological difference for "non-programmers". Perl, PHP, Ruby,
Javascript all attract many of the same types of people (not that
Ruby doesn't attract programmer types as well, but those languages
all tend to attract "non-programmers" more than, say, Java), and I
think there's something to be said for not having a compile stage.
There's a certain freedom that it presents for people who tend to be
more unstructured (i.e. designers) in their approach to solving
programming problems. Additionally, I believe weak typing plays a
role in a similar way. I'm personally a fan of strong typing, but I
can see the weak-typing, interpreted allure for someone who is
starting out in development by "messing around" or just tweaking a
program they got from somewhere else. There is a certain
intellectual overhead in compiling and typing that I can see being a
turnoff for that approach to developing.
So while I do agree that conceptually they're both doing very similar
things, I think those additional attributes DO make a difference.
And of course it's just hot and WO is for curmudgeons like all of us :)
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ms
I still don't see this. A Rails scaffolding app is analogous to a
WO Wizard or D2W app; they both have the same advantages and
disadvantages, and take roughly the same amount of time to set up.
If you don't see people using WO to do this, it doesn't mean that
it can't be done - it just means that Rails is the latest flavour
of the month, evangelical product.
As for the concepts, there are just as many. You still need to
learn the frameworks, and Rails has a lot of things that aren't
intuitively obvious (just the same as WO, only different); the
naming conventions, for one thing. The only real difference I see
is that WO is fanatical about MVC (in comparison to Rails), and
Rails likes to blur the edges. This could be a really important
difference, and quite possibly the only significant one.
Paul
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