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Originally Posted by alexander
you are kidding right? Ruby is a cool language and all, but you are better off doing a presentation on Lisp to the die hard web developers then on Ruby. How well do you know PHP to judge how powerful it is in comparison to Ruby, PHP was pronounced the best programming language of 2003, its Object model is crazy good, yet its still as powerful procedural language as PHP4 was, its so intertwined with the database that speeds of return on queries are faster than any language i have tried to date, especially with sqlite, it inherrits perl regular expression engine and many of its string manipulation functions, also completely open-source engine, so unless you can make my eyes pop, chances that those web developers guys eyes will pop, is kinda slim there...
I still think that you should do the presentation on Python then Ruby, or if you really want to blow them away do Lisp, the craziest language to date, you write code that makes code that makes code that makes code, it is the AI language for that very reason, I'd give that a look before you go any further with your topic...
not every project can be completed, and as you said money, time and so on are major drawbacks, i know by myself, but sometime someone will go, hey that's cool, lets do something with this...
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Well mate,
I've only had quick looks at php & python as far as web dev. goes, being more of a 4gl (powerbuilder) developer in another life.
Niether of the aforementioned lang.'s grabbed my attention.
ruby did. I admit I am biased in my preferred language , as most people that write code are and my preferred language is, you guessed, Ruby.
It was designed to be object oriented from the ground up. The author of ruby, Matz, looked at the scripting languages available didn't like what he saw and thought 'stuff it I'll write my own', (thanks again Matz,) so he did. 10 years later we have a mature open source language that I like.
It is all part of my cunning plan to plant the seed of ruby into the minds of these commited Mysql developers/users in Brisbane and later, maybe, just maybe, they well need the services of someone that has proven knowledge in this new tool.
Who would they think of?
If all goes well with the ruby presentation, maybe I'll do a lisp or M or Python one next month.
Only kidding.
