I had the same skepticism myself when I started looking at the language a few months ago.. but after seeing the RAA (ruby application archive, CPAN equivalent) grow significantly in the last few months, it stands a good chance.
To give you an idea, the RAA has had 6 updates/additions to it in the last 16 hours.
RAA still needs some severe reorganization, as talked about before on the ruby-talk mailing list.
As testament to the current truth to what you said, my current project at work (>3500 lines of perl.. a complete mess) is written in Perl due to the modules support.
Now if only Ruby's RDBC can get more database support to match up with Perl's DBI, i'll be happy as a pig.
Nice to see a link that talks about Ruby on Slashdot, hasn't got much press in America, but a lot outside of it.
Check it out in any case, it's got this 4 year perl veteran swearing he will never write perl code again. Very smooth OO, very clean syntax. Like, perl, but more professional, and like python but less anal.
From a perl perspective, it's got all the great quick hack features, but a lot less clumsy to make the transition to a huge hack. And a lot easier to maintain due to a consistent style and readibility. Default local scope helps too.
If your ever bored, checkout the link on Ruby compared to some other popular languages on http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/compar.html
Not saying it's the end all be all, but it's a great thing to try. The Pickaxe book is recommended as a lot of the better documentation isn't in English yet.
-- idling in #ruby on EFnet.
Grab the packages from ftp://ftp.patriots.net/ works great for me.. even adds it to the dtlogin choice. You may get perturbed at the Patriots logo there though.
Warning though, Qt will by default use your "default depth" (ala background), so you may need to change that.. I documented this and other things this last weekend at http://chaotical.ly/chaoswiki/index.php?Solaris
Why there are no official KDE packages? who knows.
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I had the same skepticism myself when I started looking at the language a few months ago.. but after seeing the RAA (ruby application archive, CPAN equivalent) grow significantly in the last few months, it stands a good chance.
To give you an idea, the RAA has had 6 updates/additions to it in the last 16 hours.
RAA still needs some severe reorganization, as talked about before on the ruby-talk mailing list.
As testament to the current truth to what you said, my current project at work (>3500 lines of perl.. a complete mess) is written in Perl due to the modules support.
Now if only Ruby's RDBC can get more database support to match up with Perl's DBI, i'll be happy as a pig.
Someone remind me to use the damned preview button. Spoiled by the geeklogs that force me to.
Nice to see a link that talks about Ruby on Slashdot, hasn't got much press in America, but a lot outside of it. Check it out in any case, it's got this 4 year perl veteran swearing he will never write perl code again. Very smooth OO, very clean syntax. Like, perl, but more professional, and like python but less anal. From a perl perspective, it's got all the great quick hack features, but a lot less clumsy to make the transition to a huge hack. And a lot easier to maintain due to a consistent style and readibility. Default local scope helps too. If your ever bored, checkout the link on Ruby compared to some other popular languages on http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/compar.html Not saying it's the end all be all, but it's a great thing to try. The Pickaxe book is recommended as a lot of the better documentation isn't in English yet. -- idling in #ruby on EFnet.
Grab the packages from ftp://ftp.patriots.net/ works great for me.. even adds it to the dtlogin choice. You may get perturbed at the Patriots logo there though.
Warning though, Qt will by default use your "default depth" (ala background), so you may need to change that.. I documented this and other things this last weekend at http://chaotical.ly/chaoswiki/index.php?Solaris
Why there are no official KDE packages? who knows.