From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T02:24:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Proving Ruby's effectiveness

unknown wrote:
> Our company (2500 employees) has a development conference in a few
> months. I want to present a talk about the effectiveness of Ruby. I've
> been asked (at late notice, grrrr) to give concrete evendence about it's
> applicability to different domains, and the productivity that it
> provides. I'm not particularly interested in raw computing performance:
> I want to show (if it's true) that projects built in Ruby will be:
> 
>   Quicker to build,
>   Easier to maintain.
>

Your company is very small, so perhaps the following comments don't 
matter to you. But I think you can only touch part of the question with 
code bake-offs and the like. Some people are interested in whether Ruby 
is a better choice for relatively large applications that cut across 
multiple domains and are typically written by and for the use of a 
single organization. To assess this is a far more difficult question, 
partly because "better" as used in the preceding sentence requires 
careful definition, and partly because the raw data are not so easy to 
collect.

Whether or not individual modules are easier to write in Ruby is a 
question that we probably have the equipment to answer today. But for 
large applications, I think most people just jerk their knees and assume 
that dynamic languages simply can't cut the mustard, and I have an 
unproven hunch that nothing could be farther from the truth.

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