[DUG] Bitwise Magazine - FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS or: Life After Borland.

[Neven MacEwan]

Steve

I didn't say i wasn't a fan of RoR, I haven't formed an opinion yet, I 
just had a non tech guy say to me that he was going to develop his own 
DB based web page with RoR like its some golden bullet that anyone can 
use, that made me smile, because there is this sentiment 'out there' 
that these tools remove the requirement for expertise (or at least 
fundamental understanding of what you are doing)

PHP may have evolved from someones need for a dynamic homepage but there 
is no denying its a major piece of software now, its not a perfect 
language (personally I hate underscores in function names), its 00 is 
inelegant but then name the perfect language! Delphi would have come 
close if it had interfaces from day one (and we would have been spared 
the awful hacks that single inheritance caused ie TCollection etc)

I like php because it can be written OO, has powerful string handling, 
is lightweight to implement, is crossplatform, I have a good IDE 
(Nusphere) and I can interface it with existing databases

I don't live in an ideal world and PHP is an effective tool for me. RoR 
is definately worth looking at but i have the feeling that its elegance 
and encompassing design may be its limitation

I look forward to being corrected

N

Steve Agnew wrote:
> Interesting article. DevCo are looking pretty closely at Ruby on Rails.
>  
> I know from Neven's comments earlier that he isn't a big RoR fan. The 
> buzz surrounding RoR reminds me of when Delphi first came out, which is 
> a refreshing change from the usual doom and gloom on the Delphi 
> newsgroups. It is free, open source & has an enthusiastic and 
> growing community of users, so I would expect it to have a good future.
>  
> In any case it's an interesting technology to watch and I wouldn't be 
> surprised if DevCo does an RoR IDE.
>  
> So who here has tried RoR and how have you found it?
>  
> Steve.
> 
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz 
> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] *On Behalf Of *Paul A Norman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 June 2006 9:19 p.m.
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* [DUG] Bitwise Magazine - FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS or: Life After 
> Borland…
> 
> I couldn't see if any one had posted this or not so hewre goes . .
>  
> Bitwise E-zine
>  
> FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
> or: Life After Borland…
> 
> Delphi, Kylix, Java, Eclipse, PHP, Ruby - and is Sun Microsystems right 
> to suggest that Delphi "got it wrong"? … just a few of the subjects we 
> talk about with Borland/DevoCo Chief Scientist, *Allen Bauer*, in this 
> exclusive Bitwise interview…
> 
> http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/programming/borland/allen_bauer_interview.html
> 
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