From: Eliot Miranda <eliotm@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T04:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: i need a list of advantages

brinleystaxservice@gmail.com wrote:
>  does anyone have a list of advantages this language provides ?

What's your audience?  If you're touting Ruby advantages to other 
programmers then the urls posted on this thread are adequate.  But if 
you're talking to management, e.g. trying to evangelise to management or 
defend against a management push away from Ruby you'll need to give a 
business case.  The essence of the business case is time-to-market and 
return-on-investment.  Duck typing and interpretation can lead to faster 
coding, and hence faster TTM, lower costs and higher ROI.  i.e. 
emphasise the business advantages, backing them up by relating them to 
specific technical features of the language, softening geek-speek for 
less technical folks.

I suggest you start googling.  There are old verbose articles such as 
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v16/ai_18237463.  Paul 
Graham's site www.paulgraham.com has gems on it.  Sorry I don't have 
something immediately to hand.


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