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Re:Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it ... by jaggederest on Sunday April 29, 2007 @12:03AM (#17813)
heh, that's what you think. Try building anything substantial in one of the languages I named and then going back to java.

Ruby programs are maybe a tenth the size, give or take,

Python similarly small.

Haskell will blow your mind because you basically never use control structures or type declarations.

Continuation-passing scheme, smalltalk, erlang...

Any of these things will change the way you develop, probably immensely for the better.

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Re:Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it ... by juwo on Sunday April 29, 2007 @09:45AM (#17872)
can I write a standalone desktop program in Ruby? (I dont know).

BTW my feedback on your work http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=17871

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Re:Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it ... by omouse on Sunday April 29, 2007 @10:45AM (#17884)
Yes: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

Next time just Google for "Ruby standalone". Saves me the trouble of doing it for you ;)

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Re:Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it ... by juwo on Sunday April 29, 2007 @11:45PM (#18022)
You proved my point - for me - better than I could have done so myself :)

If I have to google for it and come up with a 3rd party tool, then it isnt part of the language!

And FYI, I wasnt writing my comment in complete ignorance nor laziness. I did go to the ror site when I first heard of it here on YC. When I realized it seemed to be a scripting language with a web server, I lost interest. Offline is very important for me/juwo.

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Re:Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it ... by jaggederest on Monday April 30, 2007 @03:54AM (#18059)
try python. well supported windowing toolkits. and it doesn't suck.
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