I made my first working program using Ruby, a kind of object-oriented scripting language. It is a simple enough programming environment, and my first app just does a simple Web CGI interface on both XP and NT4.0 using Apache2 Web Servers. My only puzzle was that with NT the Apache2 server or on XP's IE7, I needed the scripting files to be named Whatever.CGI instead of Whatever.RB for Ruby scripts or Whatever.PL for Perl scripts.
Although I have C language programs that do similar things, they are far more complex and take a lot longer to write. I will continue to use C and C++ for the heavy lifting stuff, certainly.
Of course I know C better than just about any other language, but I also use C++ and whatever JavaScript, HTML and other assorted languages for whichever special purposes they are good for. Ruby has an enthusiastic Open Source support base, although the language seems to be set off against the Powers of MS and other big profit software houses who charge through the nose for their pile of Class Hacks.
I like Ruby because I like other clever Open Source things I've tried, including Apache2.0 itself. It is FREE, has interfaces to most things I need for the job and I can write whatever pieces are missing with a minimum of C arm waving. With Microsoft I have the "ripping hair out" reactions to some of the gluttonous crap they force upon the world, and which I've usually gone ahead an towed the line if I absolutely had to.
Ruby also contends with the likes of Python, which isn't too bad either, and Perl, which I understand, but get tangled in all the punctuation marks as badly as in C. Ruby must fight the C# and Java bandwagons, too. I probably wouldn't care which language I had to use as long as it did the job adequately. However, I don't feel like spending thousands of dollars on all the Microsoft things I'd need.
Since I am an old grumpy guy I have worked on lots of old programming systems and old operating systems with machines that made my wrists and fingers gnarled and pained. But I have the disease most old-timers have, "good-enough-itus". This is the syndrome where having learned 32 bit Pentium Assembler and C, bothered to struggle with Unix, Tcp/Ip, Httpd and CGI, Windows NT, XP and "the Registry, arrrgh!" there doesn't seem to be anything missing in my tool kit.
I could do whatever needed to be done right off, even if I needed to write a "driver" to get around the OS jungle of nonsense and jumping through hoops to set some bit to 1. Unless something else comes along that is HUGELY better, faster and just as cheap I don't feel a great need to spend money on it.
I don't expect Ruby to be any panacea for my own development tools, and I'm not really one of the "evangelists" who push it (and its Zen-isms). But I like it and I appreciate that it has a lot of work that's gone into it. I was actually very excited that my little Ruby CGI program worked right off, almost like when I finally wrote a useful program on the Apple IIe in 6502 assembler some 25 years ago or whenever it was.
The Ruby on Rails issue is still pending, however, since I want to stick with Apache2 for now and the installation blob used older versions of things that I already had newer versions for. I don't have a pressing need for that much of a blob, but if I ever do, I suspect their will be a newer version -- Ruby On Rails -- Blob II.
Although I have C language programs that do similar things, they are far more complex and take a lot longer to write. I will continue to use C and C++ for the heavy lifting stuff, certainly.
Of course I know C better than just about any other language, but I also use C++ and whatever JavaScript, HTML and other assorted languages for whichever special purposes they are good for. Ruby has an enthusiastic Open Source support base, although the language seems to be set off against the Powers of MS and other big profit software houses who charge through the nose for their pile of Class Hacks.
I like Ruby because I like other clever Open Source things I've tried, including Apache2.0 itself. It is FREE, has interfaces to most things I need for the job and I can write whatever pieces are missing with a minimum of C arm waving. With Microsoft I have the "ripping hair out" reactions to some of the gluttonous crap they force upon the world, and which I've usually gone ahead an towed the line if I absolutely had to.
Ruby also contends with the likes of Python, which isn't too bad either, and Perl, which I understand, but get tangled in all the punctuation marks as badly as in C. Ruby must fight the C# and Java bandwagons, too. I probably wouldn't care which language I had to use as long as it did the job adequately. However, I don't feel like spending thousands of dollars on all the Microsoft things I'd need.
Since I am an old grumpy guy I have worked on lots of old programming systems and old operating systems with machines that made my wrists and fingers gnarled and pained. But I have the disease most old-timers have, "good-enough-itus". This is the syndrome where having learned 32 bit Pentium Assembler and C, bothered to struggle with Unix, Tcp/Ip, Httpd and CGI, Windows NT, XP and "the Registry, arrrgh!" there doesn't seem to be anything missing in my tool kit.
I could do whatever needed to be done right off, even if I needed to write a "driver" to get around the OS jungle of nonsense and jumping through hoops to set some bit to 1. Unless something else comes along that is HUGELY better, faster and just as cheap I don't feel a great need to spend money on it.
I don't expect Ruby to be any panacea for my own development tools, and I'm not really one of the "evangelists" who push it (and its Zen-isms). But I like it and I appreciate that it has a lot of work that's gone into it. I was actually very excited that my little Ruby CGI program worked right off, almost like when I finally wrote a useful program on the Apple IIe in 6502 assembler some 25 years ago or whenever it was.
The Ruby on Rails issue is still pending, however, since I want to stick with Apache2 for now and the installation blob used older versions of things that I already had newer versions for. I don't have a pressing need for that much of a blob, but if I ever do, I suspect their will be a newer version -- Ruby On Rails -- Blob II.
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