From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T13:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby a viable corporate alternative?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:17:40 -0800, Mr P wrote:

> Our team uses Perl for almost 100% of our projects, as we have for the
> past 10 year or so. At that point we broke from the C/C++ herd and
> never looked back. Our productivity has been the best in the
> corporation since, and we hear nothing but complaints and bad-mouthing
> from the Java/C++ cadre since their design and  implementations are
> typically 5-10X what ours are..

Consider yourself warned that Ruby doesn't have any native compiler (like
perlcc for perl) or bytecode compiler, so if you're releasing your code
to the world, you have no practical way to protect your investment (yet).

--Ken

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/