From: Ruby Maniac <rubymaniac@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T10:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: I love Ruby but what is the deal with... this !

On Sep 25, 2:40 pm, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> We know how slow it is and whether or not it is important.
> We're not really worried about it, but we do look forward to upcoming  
> speed increases..
> What we are generally interested in is doing things and making things  
> with Ruby :)
> Focus on that, and you'll find that Ruby is either good or not for you.
> People here generally use other languages as well, and are not Ruby  
> only people.
> We appreciate Ruby because of other languages in many cases.
> There is actually a great deal of pragmatism in the Ruby community.
> If there is a better approach that is not Ruby we will recommend it  
> and use it.

The feeling that there is only one tool for all tasks generally leads
to the failure to recognize the right tool for the right job.

I have a nice big basket of languages I can draw upon when making
assessments as to which one might be best suited to a particular task
rather than only using one language for everything at the expense of
he who employs me since it can take quite some time to make Ruby work
in place of a better method for coding stored procs such as when SQL
Server 2005 is being used and C# might be a better choice in terms of
runtime performance.