From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T05:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: application and web app technologies

On Monday 02 January 2006 11:27 am, cartercc@gmail.com wrote:

> We want something that we can use across the board, from web apps to
> sys admin (which is why ColdFusion is not a candidate). I'm not
> interested in advocacy, but if anyone has experience in and compare
> these technologies, we would be grateful for your experiences.

Not to discount the comments from the others who have already replied -- they 
are very correct that you'd probably benefit by looking in the archives at 
past advocacy discussions, and that you need to think about any changes 
carefully; if you already have a large corpus of code and knowledge with 
Perl, you need some pretty convincing reasons to change, I think.

However, I switched from being a hardcore Perl advocate and user close to 4 
years go to being a dedicated Ruby user for nearly everything I write, from 
sysadmin tools to web applications, and have been very happy with the switch.  
It is a fabulous language to work, day after day.

That said, do you have any specfiic questions or concerns about Ruby, in 
particular, that we might be able to address?


Kirk Haines