On 8/12/05, BearItAll <bearitall / rassler.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:12:47 +0200, Goel wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry, but my knowledge is not that deep.
> >
> > I'm still from the 'old' Pascal school, learned some Java, understand OO and
> > the concept is very logic, however Java itself is for me 'too strange'.
> > When I saw some written code in Ruby, I immediately knew this was my
> > language, since the writing and logic is my naturally (for me at least).
> >
> > A friend is thinking to use it at his work too (standalone), but must know
> > some things about the performance before he is going to use it; hence my
> > (wrong) question.
> >
> 
> When I first tried Ruby, my main software language was c++ and main script
> language was perl or python. I decided that despite it being incredibly
> easy to learn, Ruby was just too slow for the script project I was doing
> at the time, which was a replacement for my server mirror software. The
> speed of traversing through the directories increased my over night mirror
> by a very long time (no point in saying how long because it obviously
> depends on how many files are involved, but it was a great deal longer
> than the previous version written in C++).
> 
> But I have since sort of slipped into using Ruby for just about all of my
> scripting in such a way that I hardly noticed until I wrote this post,
> that I haven't actually written in python since xmas. All those small two
> minute jobs that you tend to need a lot, such as find routines and
> maintenance tasks, are written in moments using Ruby.
> 
> I still find some areas of Ruby very confusing, compared to c++, but that
> is more because I was C++ only so such a long time that I would of found
> difficulty with any language.
> 
> Ruby rails is to me the biggee though. When it comes to web type work I
> have always had a blind spot. I hated html from the day I first saw it,
> and we've never got on since. So anything that can help me write a
> web site without too much html involved is a good thing. It is a struggle
> at the moment to find hosts for it, in fact I haven't found one yet

Here's one:
http://www.codefusionis.com/index.php?page=hosting

right on top of the so called most secure Unix-like OS.

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Gerardo Santana Góíez Garrido
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