From: "Booker C. Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.01.05@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T00:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

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In article <c715e640503311845762a6cc2@mail.gmail.com>,
Joe Van Dyk  <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get Ruby added to one of the "supported" OSS tools at Boeing.  
>
>I was asked this question:  "The question is, is Ruby bringing
>something extra to the table, that we can't do with Perl, Python, Tcl,
>Guile?  E.g., are there OSS packages that we want to use which need
>Ruby?"
>
>I mentioned Rails and DRb as being the most useful applications of
>Ruby to me.  But can someone help me out with more?
>

_ For me the biggest productivity gain between ruby and perl is
when you need to write modules to interface with existing
libraries. This is about a 1000 times simpler in Ruby than perl. 

_ Booker C. Bense 


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