From: Eric Lee Green <eric@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T02:07:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24539] Re: Ruby presentation

On Wednesday 07 November 2001 09:41 am, Milan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will present Ruby in our company in a short while. The aim of the
> presentation is to persuade the rest of my R&D team to go for Ruby (in
> Win32 environment) as a main higher-level language (we are currently using
> Perl) in our development environment.

Unless you have pressing needs calling for a change in language, it is likely 
that changing languages will be more expensive than simply continuing with 
Perl. I hate Perl, personally. I think it's a write-only language that is 
usable primarily for small throw-away scripts rather than serious 
programming. However, if your company's expertise is Perl, it'd be rather 
silly to go to a language where your company has no expertise. 

I would suggest that you need to wait until there is a problem for which Ruby 
is more appropriate than Perl to continue in that vein. In my case, I needed 
to prototytpe a Java application. Ruby has a much better mapping to Java than 
Perl does, so Ruby was the most appropriate solution.

Generally, language wars don't gain many adherents. People see you as being a 
fanatic looking for perfection, rather than as an engineering trying to get a 
job done in the most cost-effective manner possible.

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