From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-23T05:10:37+09:00
Subject: Re: 'why ruby?' presentations

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>
>> i know they crop up from time to time on the list...  if anyone out
>> there has
>> or knows of any good ones i'd like to browse them.  we're pushing ruby
>> and the
>> de-facto language behind a huge project so we'll need all the ammo we can
>> find.
>
> Can you tell us a little about the project?

http://www.osd.noaa.gov/class/

i sit across from, and am advising, the guy whos in charge of identifying
promising technologies for the project.  there group just started using ruby
queue and dirwatch in a near-real-time system - good advertising ;-)

-a

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