From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-06-05T23:17:36+09:00
Subject: Re: I love Ruby - But how bright is Ruby's Future?

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Well, you're going to get a lot of....um, "passionate" responses to your
specific points, so I'll keep it high-level. You've made a very good case
that corporate IT needs a better programming language, but Ruby isn't it.
One way to summarize your argument is that Ruby would be better accepted if
it were more like Java in specific ways. But Ruby is fundamentally different
from Java in both essence and detail. We still haven't answered this
question: do the things that make Ruby unique qualify it or disqualify it as
an enterprise development language? Are corporate developers ready for a
fairly serious change in the way they work? Especially since many of the
younger CS grads have never thought in any language but Java.

If we try to make Ruby an incrementally better Java as a way of driving
corporate acceptance, we'll fail at both goals.

I don't understand what you mean when you say that "syntax scales with the
project."

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