From: Brian Candler Date: 2008-12-31T21:50:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Why Ruby? Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If (when) the project goes over-budget and late, can you prove that you > used industry standard practices? That is: "nobody got fired for buying IBM" It seems that everyone is risk-averse, but nobody thinks about opportunity costs. (e.g. if we pass up the opportunity to deliver a workable solution in one month instead of six, how much money does that lose us?) Similar considerations apply to XP ideas too (e.g. "do the simplest thing which can possibly work", "you ain't gonna need it" etc). If your business won't do XP because it thinks that only the waterfall model is valid, then equally it's not going to consider using a different language. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.