From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-12-31T00:39:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

Mike Stephens wrote:

> I have never seen or heard of Ruby in a corporate context.

That's because difficult and bloated systems like VB or Java were invented to 
sell to managers in corporate contexts. That makes languages with merit hard to 
squeeze in.

 > The single
> exception (where I first came across it) was a supplier who was using it
> with Watir for testing a Java application.

That's because Watir is a killer app - one whose value has exceeded the shock of 
Ruby. Like Rails, people learn Ruby to use Watir.

> 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 "services" is a web api, why should they care what language you wrote an 
application in?

Either way, a company might think they need to see what language you use as a 
"due diligence" thing, to see if you are really a member of the Java/C# club.

If so, you can win by using Ruby. You typically accomplish twice the features in 
half the time and 1/10th the code, compared to Java. You can easily overwhelm 
your competition...

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   Phlip