From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T01:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Is ruby a viable corporate alternative?

On 07.12.2006 17:18, Mr P wrote:
> Those of you who cited productivity improvements were particularly
> interesting and I found your enthusiam contagious.

Be careful, no cure has been found so far.  Everybody who starts 
searching got infected and... ok, now *I* am getting carried away here.

> I've asked every developer on our team to complete a lengthy RUBY
> tutorial, and every one of them has gone into it grumbling that I'm
> making them do something they didn't want to do. But upon completion,
> every one has been excited and positive about the language. So I think
> we're on the right track. They were excited about being able to learn
> the fundamentals of a new language so quickly, and as I'm sure you've
> heard- I kept hearing "this is JUST LIKE PERL", or "This is better than
> the JAVA syntax.." etc.

Sounds good!  I'm just wondering: they certainly said "this is JUST LIKE 
PERL - but much better", did they? ;-)

> Thanks so much, onward into the fray!

Good luck - and have a lot of fun along the way!

Kind regards

	robert