A laughingstock!  

Posted by KB

Recently, one of my friends posted me this link. Its a commercial to promote "Ruby on Rails".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99EHyG2jQA

I was in splits in just 2 seconds after the video started. It goes on like this, 2 guys on stage - one claiming to be RoR (Ruby on Rails) and the other is .Net... the .Net guy speaks up - hey there is a new feature in C#3.0 (Am already wondering, whats the framework got to do with the language, anyway lets listen to what he has to say) and the new feature is called "Dynamic Typing" (I was like - what the heck? I never knew! ) He continues, it is called "var". (Am in splits! Cut off the video right here)

What i would call this is "mediocrity". You are promoting a programming language and you do not know what the heck is "Dynamic Typing". Alright guys, nice commercial, i've got a good impression on RoR and i swear i'd never even think of using it, even for a hobby project !!


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shankzz  
July 26, 2008 4:52 AM

lol...same reaction here...eventhough i have absolutely no idea what this dynamic typing or whatever is all about. but i am indeed checking out ruby on rails to understand what it promises and delivers.

KB  
July 26, 2008 5:03 PM

on ROR - i *heard* its a framework? something similar to the .net framework but i may be wrong in what i *heard*

and on Dynamic Typing,
The type of the variable is known at run time. At compile time you have no idea of what object the variable is gonna hold - an int or a string or a boeing aircraft?

C# is statically typed, at compile time, it knows what TYPE of variable it is dealing with.

Can you hear me ??  
October 10, 2008 7:40 AM

dude... that commercial is not the one by ruby on rails team....

yes.. ruby on rails is a framework and it is much faster and less complicated than anything that shit Microsoft assholes provide!

Check out RoR's founder's site... www.37signals.com

btw, that site is deployed in ROR.

Ajith

P.S: That video is supposed to be a joke... at most a sad joke :)

KB  
November 1, 2008 1:06 AM

much faster, less complicated.. blah blah blah... nothing concrete dear. there are a shit loads of criterion to rate programming languages :-) and well, i never said ROR sucks, i know what ruby can do.. its just the their lame attempt at poking fun went off in the wrong direction and all i say is, if u arnt sure, dont do it :-)

KB  
November 1, 2008 1:08 AM

and darn, i didnt know ppl still check my blog.. i stopped writing awhile ago :|

KB  
November 1, 2008 1:12 AM

and aargh, i cant resist the temptation to go out and explain why the heck is C# or java a bit slow... its mainly due to the shit load of compile time checks that they do just to ensure that ur frikkin program doesnt puke in runtime :| and the kind of source language agnostic intermediate (portable) byte code that they tend to generate.. phew !

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