From: "C. Pohjanraito" <pikNOUseli@...>
Date: 2008-12-30T23:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

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).

It is very handy for making conversion and import scripts. I've been 
using it for converting between geographical coordinate systems, for 
processing translations in a spreadsheet, and for generating svg and 
html from algos and xml.

Just to name some small stuff...

It is a nimble little language!

Casimir Pohjanraito