From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T05:00:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Some help against the raging hordes of 'J' fanatics

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Peter Szinek wrote:

> As 98% of the comments is like 'yeah Ruby is maybe cool, but Java is
> about equal or better' and there is not even one real Ruby answer, I
> would like to challange some members to add some Ruby spice to the
> thing, too. I think the Ruby community is also cool enough to argue a
> bit about this, on Ruby's behalf...
> What do you say?

Why do you need to do this?  If they choose another language over
Ruby, no-one is harmed by that.  People will learn it if there is 
a compelling reason for them to do so, but they must see it as
compelling, themselves.  Many have seen Rails as such a reason.

When choosing a programming language one also needs to know about
available libraries, platforms, experience of others in the team,
whether support contracts are needed, and lots more.  Sometimes
something else is the right answer.

        Hugh