From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T01:36:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

On Apr 1, 2005 9:54 AM, Booker C. Bense
<bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.01.05@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> _ 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.

Combine this with the 10x productivity gain you'd get by throwing
Rails into the mix, and that boosts one person's productivity up to a
staggering 10,000x. With that kind of horsepower you'd only have to
work, what, one day every 27 years or so?