From: Eric Hodel Date: 2005-03-22T04:51:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Support for 10x Productivity Increase with Rails! --Apple-Mail-25--16489099 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 21 Mar 2005, at 09:13, Curt Hibbs wrote: > I got a lot of flack for what I wrote in my ONLamp.com article on > Rails when > I said you could get a 10x productivity increase using Rails vs. a > typical > Java framework. The funny thing is that I thought I was being > conservative! > > Anyway, I spent some time talking with Bruce Tate this weekend (author > of > Better, Faster, Lighter Java; Bitter Java; and Bitter EJBs) and he was > able > to confirm that my claim is *not* out of line (he likes to say 5x to > 10x > increase). Obviously your mileage will vary depending on > circumstances, but > based on the details I got from Bruce, I still think that 10x is a good > ballpark number. 43 Things was implemented and released by 5 people in under 3 months. There was only one Ruby expert (me) and I spend half my time playing sysadmin. -- Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 --Apple-Mail-25--16489099 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCPyXJMypVHHlsnwQRArRiAKCymauU+uraE1rR1LJ2R7s1wm3hGACfZ3Lf rCPDMSw0rAil84m/tKBvQc4= =KN8O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-25--16489099--