...The last thing I want is start a language/framework war.
A funny little post I did about a world time server in a single line of rails code was posted on dzone with some comment about ruby, php and java, and caused a lot of heated comments.
So hereby I declare: I Love Rails, but I'm the last one to think that rails is the Holly Grail of languages and framework. It's really well written, it's a joy to write web apps in, but it's not the only game in town.
You like php? Love Java? Think C# is the best thing since sliced bread? All the power to you! Use them and enjoy them. And I'm sure there are enough projects where it makes more sense to to use those languages/framework.
I'm a true believer in one thing: know has many tools as you can comfortably manage, and use the one best suited for the task. For years I programmed in in C/C++ on Win32. I know a very large number of languages, and worked professionally with C/C++, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, dBaseII - dBaseIV (I think I'm giving away my ancientness here...) and a lot of other languages. Really, even assembler. Heck, I'm teaching my 9 year old daughter to program in Logo.
So please, don't use my posts for language wars, we have enough of those already.
