Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> I didn't say, but, yes, I have looked at Ruby.  It seems to be 
> purpose-built for web stuff, which would help me with the web apps I'm 
> wanting, but I don't know how well it would work for everything else.

I'd say that Ruby itself is a reasonably general purpose language. When
you add the Rails framework (or one of the other lesser known frameworks,
for that matter) it becomes much more focused to web applications.

Chris