From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T22:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

Adriano Ferreira wrote:

>On Apr 1, 2005 8:42 AM, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>Sorry for being ironic at first. But it would be better to rephrase
>as: "Tell them to give Ruby a try and soon they can dump all the other
>languages."
>  
>
It doesn't work like that with technology approval boards, I'm afraid.

Where I work, these decisions are made by Perl lovers. To them Ruby must 
sound like Yet Another Perl Wannabe, sans the libraries. I once got 
Python through the system by getting an approval to use Grinder 3. My 
reasons were:

1. No license to pay for (as opposed to mega-expensive Mercury LoadRunner)
2. Can take to customer site where customer doesn't want to pay the 
aforementioned megabucks
3. Already used on customer site at customer's own demand (which is an 
enlightening story about relative merits of commercial capture-playback 
tools vs a decent programming language).

I believe the author of this thread wants something like this, too.

P.S. In case anyone wonders... I use Ruby "unauthorized", which means I 
cannot ask to have it installed on a server, so I get to use 
Net::whatever a lot :) Ruby anyway cannot talk to Oracle on HPUX, so I 
don't bother to have it there.


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