Comments on: A Newbie's First Impression of Ruby http://alisothegeek.com/2009/05/31/a-newbies-first-impression-of-ruby/ Eliminating excuses for crappy code. Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:40:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Casey Borders http://alisothegeek.com/2009/05/31/a-newbies-first-impression-of-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Casey Borders Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:25:01 +0000 http://alisothegeek.com/?p=21#comment-531 The difference is between strict typing and dynamic typing. ActionScript, like Java and C-based languages, is strictly typed. That means when you declare a variable you declare it's type and it is always of that type. Ruby, like Python and Perl, is dynamically typed. That means that you create a variable and it can be of any type and can change types if need be. Strict typing is actually a good thing in most cases. Here is an article about a guy who actually did it in the opposite order from you and his experience. http://www.stevenhargrove.com/strict-data-typing/ The difference is between strict typing and dynamic typing. ActionScript, like Java and C-based languages, is strictly typed. That means when you declare a variable you declare it’s type and it is always of that type. Ruby, like Python and Perl, is dynamically typed. That means that you create a variable and it can be of any type and can change types if need be. Strict typing is actually a good thing in most cases. Here is an article about a guy who actually did it in the opposite order from you and his experience.

http://www.stevenhargrove.com/strict-data-typing/

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