Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer wrote: > Hi! > > Ruby is nice when you want to have a straight-forward, easy to use > language. > You can write stuff very quickly, there are few restrictions and it is > very > constistent (OOP). Yup. > There are also some nice specials like blocks and > mixins. Those aren't specials; they're core language features. > Ruby has good support for additional libraries (e.g. Qt+KDE for GUI). > But also when you simply want to calculate some things you can easily > write > 100 lines of Ruby. You should also consider that Ruby is terribly slow. > E.g. > if you want to try it a few billion cases in an algorithm, that is often > possible in realistic time in C++ or even Java but not in Ruby. Depends on the implementation. MRI is slow (I wouldn't say "terribly" slow). Ruby EE and YARV are faster. JRuby is probably faster yet. All are plenty fast enough for most general-purpose applications. > It is > even > slower than scripting-languages like Python or Falcon. Currently C++ and > Ruby > are my favourtire language, C++ does not know a lot of limits, is very > fast > and provides very cool things with templates etc. (compile time meta- > programming), but it is also a bit complicated and inconstistent, Ruby > is a > really nice toy I use wheneverit is easily possible. > A lot of people say that C++ is horrible, very inconsistent and > complicate. > But that is not true. Most stuff is very consistent but it takes more > time to > learn it, it is easier to think like Ruby than to think like C++. Sorry, no. C++ looks inconsistent because it is: it's C with some object orientation bolted on. > And please do not learn Java, it is simply a stupid language, > inconsistent > like C++, not as dynamic as Ruby and not as fast and not as many > compile-time > capabilities as C++. Java's more consistent than C++, and more portable. I don't much like Java, but I'll use it over C++ any day. And of course the JVM is fabulous when coupled with a *decent* language like JRuby. > > Jonathan > > ------------------------ > Automatisch eingefgte Signatur: > Es lebe die Freiheit! > Stoppt den Gebrauch proprietrer Software! > Operating System: GNU/Linux > Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.8-0.1-default > Distribution: openSuSE 11.2 > Qt: 4.6.2 > KDE: 4.4.62 (KDE 4.4.62 (KDE 4.5 >= 20100203)) "release 2" > KMail: 1.13.0 > http://gnu.org/ > http://kde.org/ > http://windows7sins.org/ Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen / marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.