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Look! Someone’s Bashing A Computer Language And It’s Not ColdFusion!
This is an interesting read: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails. As are some of the follow up blog posts I stumbled across:
- Immature developer attitudes revealed in flames regarding CDBaby
- Thinking about Rails? Think Again (Slashdot – comments)
I find it interesting that he re-wrote the app in PHP – but using techniques and ideas he discovered in Rails. There are some good lessons to be learned here that can apply to any language. My favorite is #7:
#7 – PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE *YOU* ARE BETTER
Rails was an amazing teacher. I loved it’s “do exactly as I say” paint-by-numbers framework that taught me some great guidelines.
I love Ruby for making me really understand OOP. God, Ruby is so beautiful. I love you, Ruby.
But the main reason that any programmer learning any new language thinks the new language is SO much better than the old one is because he’s a better programmer now! You look back at your old ugly PHP code, compared to your new beautiful Ruby code, and think, “God that PHP is ugly!” But don’t forget you wrote that PHP years ago and are unfairly discriminating against it now.
It’s not the language (entirely). It’s you, dude. You’re better now. Give yourself some credit.
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11:17 pm on September 24th, 2007
My first love is ColdFusion, php is next because of available free apps but Rails has been intriguing with it’s neat little videos showing how easy it is to make a CRUD app. I enjoyed the article, it was a nice objective review, I may play with Ruby anyways. :D