[bryanthompson]

I'm learning Ruby this week, so far it's pretty damn awesome! I was really nervous at first, since it is such a loose language. No semicolons, parenthesis are optional, same with brackets... it seems like there are ten ways to write the exact same statement. I checked out a few books on safari.oreilly.com and spent most of monday and tuesday reading. Wednesday I started coding.

On Monday I had never even heard of the language. By this morning at 2am I already had a fully working (Ruby on Rails) app, with many of the features that took me several days, if not weeks, to figure out in J2EE. I estimate I wrote 20 lines of code, total. The rest was generated from Ruby's scripts and is automatically inserted where it belongs. The only heavy lifting was in creating/managing sessions and in hooking up stylesheets. All of the CRUD and O/R mappings, handled automagically.

I'm totally stunned. It seems like it shouldn't be this easy...