Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 21:59



Carrie wrote:
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> I am sure that Ruby and Rails are excellent things, but a bit like Sat
> Nav, I find it very irritating to know that I could acheive what I
> want to do in only a few lines of PHP, in the same way as when a sat
> nav tells you to go in a direction that you are not at all sure of and
> will take ages!
>
I rather think you've got confused between Rails and one of the Java
enterprise platforms here. Ruby is the single most terse language I have
ever used- in a practical way, you can write epic programs in one line
of perl but you can't maintain them - and amazingly clean. The only
thing I've used that comes close is perl and that doesn't give you all
the benefits of true object orientation ( actual object orientation in a
Smalltalk/Eiffel way rather than pseudo-object-orientation in a
Java/C#/C++ way) that Ruby does.

Part of the rails philosophy is that processor cycles are cheaper than
developer cycles so if you have an application that needs a more
powerful server but takes half the time to write it's probably a
long-term saving.