Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 49862
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2008/5/1-5 [Computer/SW/Languages/Ruby] UID:49862 Activity:low
4/30    So I've done lots of C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python and may need
        to learn Ruby on Rails soon to build a prototype without any
        consideration for scalability. Which language is RoR most similar
        to and why is it such a big hype these days?
        \_ Is Ruby on Rails even a programming language? -clueless sysadmin
           \_ there's ruby on rails.  java on rails.  python on rails.
              perl on rails.  rails rails rails.
              \_ So rails is more of a development methodology then?
                 \_ It's a framework.
                    \_ What does that even mean?
                       \_ Look it up, sheesh.
        \_ Don't learn RoR.  Learn Ruby.  RoR will be easy to learn, but
           won't really teach you much about how to use Ruby efficiently.
           Ruby is pretty amazingly cool as long as you are willing to
           throw out a lot of what you think you know about programming.
           Read the source to a lot of Ruby low level libraries.  It's
           amazing how readable major changes to object behavior are
           because of how easy it is to do meta-programming in Ruby.
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