From: james@...
Date: 2002-03-23T10:59:39+09:00
Subject: RE: Windows version of Ruby (proposals)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Parrish [mailto:cparrish@cox.net]
> Ron,
> I'd like to echo someone elses comment that while most *users* are using
> Windows I don't think most *developers* are.

I used to work at a company that ran in-house server apps on Solaris.
Everybody had a Windows box for general use (Word, Outlook, the company
standards), plus some development.

Not everybody managed to obtain a secondary dev box, so if you couldn't
build on Windows you needed to run telnet or an X session to a remote
server. I liked being able to do all my development locally, on my Windows
box.  I didn't worry about network problems, or have to use the particular
version of vi on a given server.

(Things changed when I had to build J2EE apps to run on iPlanet. Ugh.  I
left.)

So, even if every Ruby application was intended for a Unix deployment, it
is quite nice to have a choice of where to test, experiment, and so on.

As a freelancer, it is nice to build up a collection of scripts and tools
that run reliably on multiple platforms.  I'm too lazy to want to keep
track of one language for this platform, and another language for some
other platform.


James