Comments on: My Favourite Programming Languages Through The Years http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/20/my-favourite-programming-languages-through-the-years/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:28:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brian Takita http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/20/my-favourite-programming-languages-through-the-years/#comment-201 Brian Takita Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:34:52 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=70#comment-201 I hope Rails works out for you. Ruby had its time coming. It just needed a killer app and Rails was that. There are some other nice projects to look out for, such as Rake for automation and Switchtower for deployment. I hope Rails works out for you. Ruby had its time coming. It just needed a killer app and Rails was that. There are some other nice projects to look out for, such as Rake for automation and Switchtower for deployment.

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/20/my-favourite-programming-languages-through-the-years/#comment-198 simon Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:47:24 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=70#comment-198 Thanks for that Randal. There sure are a lot of these frameworks around - Java has a Rails clone called Trails. I should say, I haven't actually written a line of Perl for quite a few years now - unfortunately, it was never much of a friend of mine ;-) I pretty much abandoned Perl as a programming language in 1997, when it simply could not cope with the kind of web apps we were developing at the time. This was actually the errr... "catalyst" for us getting into Java in a serious way (and it quickly became obvious that it could replace the C/C++ work we were doing, too). I know plenty of great folks who love Perl, by the way. It's just not personally my favourite language. So.... I would actually be dumping PHP for Ruby. I'm intrigued to see how I get on with Ruby - I have to say that the latest version of PHP - PHP 5 - is actually pretty good. Should I be embarassed to admit I don't mind PHP these days? Not sure! Thanks for that Randal. There sure are a lot of these frameworks around - Java has a Rails clone called Trails.

I should say, I haven’t actually written a line of Perl for quite a few years now - unfortunately, it was never much of a friend of mine ;-) I pretty much abandoned Perl as a programming language in 1997, when it simply could not cope with the kind of web apps we were developing at the time. This was actually the errr… “catalyst” for us getting into Java in a serious way (and it quickly became obvious that it could replace the C/C++ work we were doing, too). I know plenty of great folks who love Perl, by the way. It’s just not personally my favourite language.

So…. I would actually be dumping PHP for Ruby. I’m intrigued to see how I get on with Ruby - I have to say that the latest version of PHP - PHP 5 - is actually pretty good. Should I be embarassed to admit I don’t mind PHP these days? Not sure!

]]> By: Randal L. Schwartz http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/20/my-favourite-programming-languages-through-the-years/#comment-197 Randal L. Schwartz Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:01:21 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=70#comment-197 Before you abandon your friend Perl for Ruby, take a look at Catalyst, which is the Ruby-on-Rails equivalent for Perl. It's not getting as much press only because it's not "uber-new" so the bloggers ignore it. Before you abandon your friend Perl for Ruby, take a look at Catalyst, which is the Ruby-on-Rails equivalent for Perl. It’s not getting as much press only because it’s not “uber-new” so the bloggers ignore it.

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