From: Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T01:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: New user questions

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:00, brundlefly76 wrote:
> I have been a production Perl programmer for about 10 years, and am
> looking into tinkering with Ruby, and had a few questions:
> 
> 1. I noticed Ruby was not installed by default on Suse 9.2 (although a
> package was available in Yast). Does anyone have any information on
> what Linux distributions *do* install Ruby by default, and any progress
> on that? Because of the nature of my work, its not too convenient for
> me to go installing interpreters on every machine I need to work on.
> 
> 2. How fast do Ruby releases move - say in comparison to Perl? I cant
> tell if it moves very slowly or simply has a versioning scheme that
> belies this.
> 
> 3. Is anyone here running Ruby in a production environment, and for
> what applications?
> 
> 4. Any Perl programmers have any comments on their experiences working
> with Ruby?

When I was introduced with ruby by my boss, I was using Perl for about
3+ years at that  time. It was about 2 years back.
I am not using Perl for at least 18 months.

Mohammad


> 
> Thanks for any info!