Competition
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Trapper and Socks in Action |
I happened to catch this cat fight in my kitchen (yes, it’s between actual cats, but there were no bets placed!). Speaking of fights, I have been doing some tinkering with Ruby and C# (especially using Mono). I have seen people do some magic with Ruby. It does seem to have some very powerful code generation capabilities and seems especially efficient at creating simple database driven web apps (using the Rails framework) . However, I hate the syntax! My background is PHP, Java, C/C++ and shell scripting. I really like using braces for block definition. The whole begin and end thing escapes me. Perhaps it’s the years of using vim as my “IDE”. |
C# otoh seems to be a natural transition. I like the separation of the virtual machine from the language itself. Even though I think Microsoft is evil for trying (successfully?) to kill Java, they have done a good job with dotNET. But I would probably have avoided it had not the Mono folks done at even better job at making it work under Linux.
