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CodeIgniter is bloated? It doesn't even include an ORM! There are some many things missing from it that other frameworks include that I can't even fathom what the author is talking about.

Having switched from PHP to Ruby a year ago, I now find Ruby's syntax beautiful and incredibly powerful. If you don't like the implied parentheses, it turns out, you can go ahead and add them!

Edit: because I didn't proofread the first time...

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> Having switched from PHP to Ruby a year ago, I now find Ruby's syntax beautify and incredibly powerful. If you don't like the implied parentheses, it turns out, you can go ahead and type them add them!

I like Ruby's syntax as well and do most web app work in Rails nowadays.

However, one thing I love about the PHP syntax is that it's so easy to switch between PHP and C or C++ and vice versa. So if you're doing a lot of C work and only a bit of web work, it's nice to know PHP.

Otherwise if you're doing web work full time, Ruby's quite fun.

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