From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-30T17:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

On 30.12.2008 08:44, Mike Stephens wrote:
> I have never seen or heard of Ruby in a corporate context. The single
> exception (where I first came across it) was a supplier who was using it
> with Watir for testing a Java application.
> 
> If you supply services to corporates, what sort of case can you make for
> using Ruby rather than Java, which is in use everywhere? (I'm not
> thinking of Rails here, which is a rather specialized).

If I type "why ruby" in my favorite search engine's form the first hit 
is http://www.ruby-doc.org/whyruby

My personal reasons are

* lots of things can be done on few lines
* it has a clean syntax
* it is pure OO

Kind regards

	robert

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