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Posted by Tarscher on 09/04/07 09:31
On 29 aug, 18:48, Good Man <he...@letsgo.com> wrote:
> Erwin Moller
> <Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spamyourself.com> wrote innews:46d555d0$0$241$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
>
>
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> > How does Ruby compare to PHP?
> > What do you think of Ruby and Ruby onRails?
> > I don't need links to wikepedia or ruby homepage or something like
> that.
> > Found them myself. ;-)
> > I hope for opinions from PHP programmers on Ruby.
>
> I don't have much experience with Ruby either, but from what I've read,
> it doesn't scale very well at all. PHP is apparantly far superior in
> that regard - I've read comments on the web that indicate some people
> have junked their Ruby projects and recoded them in PHP for the scaling
> issue alone.
>
> One thing about Ruby I've noticed is that its followers are pretty rabid
> about it, and generally don't like to hear bad things about it.
>
> I personally love PHP, it does absolutely everything I need it to do (at
> the moment), it's fast, has many years of experience and development
> behind it, and is almost universally available on web servers. That
> being said, I am freely able to handle disparaging comments about its
> shortcomings, which I am well aware of.
>
> I wouldn't learn Ruby unless a new job (ie: career, not project)
> required it. There are certain languages/apps I'm not prepared to do a
> 'adequate' performance with; I'd rather get paid 'expert' style money
> for my PHP skills than average pay for 'servicable' Ruby skills. Much in
> the same way that I just stopped trying to keep up with
> actionscript,asp, etc... I'd rather be an expert in a couple languages
> than a jack-of-all-trades.
>
> Ruby will be good for getting you to standardize your coding I suppose,
> but if you're after speed, scalability and a ton of support/development
> history, then PHP is where it's at.
>
> ps: I am not interested in a flame-war!
I have been a PHP programmer switching to Rails and must admit I
needed some time to adjust. You are forced in a MVC structure that can
feel strange in the beginning. Rails is now all about restful design.
I think this simplifies things and I greatly suggets it when learning
RoR.
Ruby code is very easy to learn (is the Rails part that can take some
time). I now greatly prefer Ruby over PHP especially for readability.
Especialy all the $blable->$dqsd->$gdsq make your PHP code ugly I
think.
regards,
STijn
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