[Openstreetmap] Programming Language

Andy Robinson Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jan 18 12:34:06 GMT 2006


I'm reading the online http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ which I
assume forms the basis for the pickaxe as we speak :)

Thanks Steve

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: SteveC [mailto:steve at asklater.com]
>Sent: 18 January 2006 12:09
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: openstreetmap at vr.ucl.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Openstreetmap] Programming Language
>
>* @ 18/01/06 10:18:49 AM Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>> Ok guys and gals, this is not entirely off topic.
>>
>> If I wanted to contribute more or get more out of this project on the
>> scripting/programming front, which language would be best to concentrate
>on.
>> We seem to have a broad variety of cross platform languages tied up so
>far,
>> so which one might be best to concentrate on. I tried a little utility
>tool
>> which grades languages according to task and it came out that PHP was the
>> one from the bunch, but who am I to judge.
>>
>> Any suggestions or pointers would be helpful.
>
>The way I work is to fix on a problem then the language. I'm too lazy to
>go learn PHP without a real need.
>
>I'd add SQL to your list if you fancy doing anything server-side. Or
>HTML / CSS for page layout. JavaScript...
>
>Specifically in OSM there are quite a few benchmarking tasks that don't
>require any particular language, or even speccing out the applet UI
>requires some thought. Thanks to the diversity of editors there's a
>number of languages there to choose from. As someone else mentioned OSM
>uses ruby server-side and the applet is in Java. There is a smidgeon of
>PHP that I imagine could be re-written so we don't depend on mod_php.
>
>For what it's worth I'd buy the pickaxe
>
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974514055/qid=1137586915/sr=8-
>1/ref=pd_ka_1/203-4456799-6632706
>
>and play with ruby, all other things being equal. A number of us on the
>mailing list did just that and I was able to refactor all the old java
>in to ruby in something like a day and a half which was insane.
>
>have fun,
>
>SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/






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