Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming

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Not everything is a nail

Haven you actually realized that we are at the dawn of systems development? This is an extremelly young discipline.

We are still working from first principles every time, and rightly so, We don't have as much experience as we would need to do it other wise.

New languages are experiments, New frameworks are experiments. Guess what many creators of these languages/frameworks are doing after creating them? CREATING ANOTHER LANGUAGE with the features they would have liked in the previous one. And I find it OK.

Learning a new language/framework is like reading another book or practicing a new sport. You can only learn from that, be culturally richer and adapt faster to your environment.

Not all languages are created equal. There are tasks where COBOL is more efficient than Java, some where Java is more efficient than .NET, etc.

Would you write a device driver in COBOL?
Conversely, you need to be a mazoquist to write a record oriented business application in C.

Learn multiple languages, learn FROM them: What problem were they trying to solve, how they did it.

Focus on the problem domain and choose the right tool to implement the solution.

Not everything is a nail!

Posted by: rarsa   Posted on: 11/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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