From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T11:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Server Programming

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:36:08 +0900, David Ross <dross@code-exec.net> wrote:

> War stories. I wonder if theres already a page for it on RubyGarden, if
> not it should be created. I'd love to hear about people who converted
> program(s) from <that language> to Ruby. It would be interesting and
> benificial to the community. Also it would encourage more to convert as
> well.

Good idea, and it works the other way around also.  atm, I'm taking
what I've learned from Ruby and bringing some of it to the world of
Miva.  I've played with this idea for a couple of years, and it's
finally live, thanks to Ruby.

The months that I spent learning Ruby are paying off in ways I never
would have imagined, and without a doubt, it was well worth the time. 
Ruby gave me a new perspective on some old code, and it gave me some
new tools to generate code for the truly tedious parts of what I'm
doing.

In a nutshell, learning Ruby has put the "possible" in "impossible" (a
reverse of the old joke "they put the "fun" in "dysfunctional").

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)