From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T05:57:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

On Apr 1, 2005 7:54 AM, Booker C. Bense
<bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Apr.01.05@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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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.
> 

I've not written C modules in Perl or Python.  How does Ruby compare
to them in that respect?