From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T07:51:55+09:00
Subject: Re: we don't have to sell ourselves short... (was Ruby and .NET)

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:43:50PM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> Languages like C, Perl, and Ruby will time and time again prove
> themselves to be powerful ways of getting alot done.  I think the
> ..NET's and EJB's should be worried about Ruby, not the other way
> around.

I tended to agree with your opinion.  Then I happened to read this on
linuxandmain.com from an Interview with Icaza:

``We want to reduce the time it takes us to maintain that code and we
want to reduce our time to market with new features.  So instead of
building new features with a low-level language -- no garbage
collection, no thread support, none of that -- the idea would be to
extend Evolution in pieces in mono.  This is one of the things I like
best about the whole .NET framework -- you don't have to do a complete
religious switch from your current platform.  Instead you can take
your existing platform and you start to extend it.''

Well, as I said, I tended to agree with your opinion, but it wasn't
until I imagined, in the piece above, the word ``Parrot'' written in
stead of ``.NET'', and noticed how well it fits, that I *really*
agreed. :-)

Massimiliano