From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-12-31T22:16:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:36:03 -0800, Phlip wrote:

Stephen, all I snipped away is very sensible stuff, however
> Can you say, "anyone else would
> have made the same choice"?
Will you not get fired if you say such a stupid thing? Oh I lost that
chess game and yet I mirrored every move of
my opponent. I believe it has been shown that the most dangerous and
most devastator projects are those which have not taken any risks and
all decisions have been taken in a conventional way. In other words,
where is the added value of a person that takes the choice anyone else
would have made?
<More good stuff snipped away>

There is one other thing. I believe that starting a project in Ruby
and having to fall back to a more conventional language is still time
well spent in a sound design process. It will not work the other way
round though. Choosing Java will become a final decision ( nowadays of
course JRuby and friends might offer an escape route after all ;) very
quickly while choosing Ruby while leave you much more freedom of
choice later on.

Cheers
Robert