[HanoiLUG] [OT] Any Rubyists out there?

[Tom Lancaster]

Jean Christophe André wrote:
> Tom Lancaster a écrit :
>> [To derail slightly, what programming languages do the members of this list prefer to use?]
>>   
> Since I have been using computers for quite a long time now, I learnt a
> bunch of programming languages (among these I played a lot with Pascal,
> ASM 6809/Z80/i386, multiple kind of Basic, Logo, Lisp, Prolog, Perl and
> C++) but I never "hooked" on most of them.
> 
> But here is what I use now:
> - Bash shell (or Perl, rarely) script for any quick-and-dirty hack ;
> - C is my favorite for system/network programming ;
> - PHP for web scripting => I just hate this language, but it happens I
> had to use it a lot, so I know it pretty well now ;
> - Python is the next one I'm going to learn and use for most of my
> future programming.
> 

Guess I should have come clean first on the "show & tell" - I cut my 
teeth on Perl, know enough C to get myself in trouble, have recently 
been using PHP a lot which makes me feel grimy, but for scripting in 
shared hosting environments its convenience can't be beat (in any case, 
php5 is slightly better).

Inasmuch as SQL is a programming language, that's a favorite.

Bash, too, but if it gets complicated I just use a Perl script or one-liner.

The reason I ask about Ruby is I recently did my first commercial Rails 
application, and in the process discovered that I love Ruby. It's like 
Perl, except that it makes sense.

This is surely a very personal matter, but in learning Ruby I found that 
the method I was looking for was the one I wanted to type anyway. Very 
instinctive.

Unfortunately Ruby is not yet very fast - probably not fast enough to 
run giant interactive sites.

For the moment, then, it's a language I'm keeping a fond eye on.

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