From: Peter Booth <pbooth@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T03:30:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

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Of course ten years ago Mike could easily have been asking:

On Dec 30, 1998, at 2:44 AM, Mike Stephens wrote:
> I have never seen or heard of Java in a corporate context. The single
> exception (where I first came across it) was a supplier using a Java  
> applet
> to animate text on his world wide web page.
>
> If you supply services to corporates, what sort of case can you make  
> for
> using Java rather than C++, which is in use everywhere? (I'm not
> thinking of applets here, which is a rat



The point being that the same patterns of behavior will recur.
So soon enough BigWig A will be playing gold with BigWig B
and will say,
"You know we've got some great cost savings with
our push to Agile, especially the whole Ruby on Rails things,
what about you?
"Us, we're looking at at it, not sure what results yet."

Next Morning
"Smith, What are doing with Ruby on Rails?"
"er um, dont know"
"Well I don't want to miss the boat on this thing, make sure we're  
taking it seriously, lets raise it at the next development managers  
meeting ..."

I can recall how hard it was to get people to take Java seriously.
I can also remember hearing "C++ is very pretty but it will never  
replace Fortran"
And also, "You're trying to do that in GW-Basic. Are you crazy?  
Everyone knows that you can only do FFTs in Assembler. It will never  
be fast enough on an interpreter!"


On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:44 AM, 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).
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>


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