From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T09:28:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

Chad Perrin wrote:
> I had a forehead-smacking moment while reading that, where I realized
> that *of course* it's true that after two years of not getting anything
> substantially right, there's obviously something else wrong besides
> choosing the wrong tool (if it's wrong for that purpose at all, which
> does not appear to be a settled matter from where I'm sitting).
> 
> Hell, two years should be enough time to get something working in COBOL,
> let alone Rails.

I don't think it was a matter of not getting something working -- IIRC
CD Baby did *work* when it was in Rails. In reality, I think it was that
he didn't understand MVC, Ruby or Rails when he started the migration --
it just looked cool, so he went out and hired a Rails programmer to do it.