From: Greg Loriman <do@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T17:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: In your opinion....


>In your opinion(s)....

>What is ruby better for and why?

Ruby is good at attracting bores. Notice how many people have replied to 
your message with non-answers, perhaps supposed to be amusing, but really 
just irritating and unfunny. Or worse, the presumptuous : "go and do your 
homework". Makes me feel an unchristian desire to kill.

Perhaps this is the penalty of a geek language; the signal to bore ratio in 
this group is not so good.

Coming back to your question : Ruby is nice, but don't get bamboozled by the 
ruby crowd. Someone with a clear head needs to come along and critique the 
language more objectively than I have seen so far. hOwever I'm not saying 
its a bad langauge; far from it,

For example: although some would push Ruby for big projects there are 
reasons to  be circumspect about such a decision. Not being a Ruby expert I 
cannot elaborate too much, except to say that there are some 
industrial-strength-unfriendly-and-too-powerful-perhaps features in the 
language, like C++ but much more elegant possibilities for self destruction. 
The Rails project also needs proper examination. It seem like the soloution 
to all our problems, the way people talk about it. But there are sounds from 
the deep (the WWW)  to think that it is not the solution to all our 
problems. Again I am unable to elaborate, but you can look around.

So be careful of the ruby fanatics; they have funny starring eyes and froth 
coming from their mouths, like mad dogs.

Greg