From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2011-05-16T04:25:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Future Or?

Python and Ruby are pretty much in the same boat. Python won't be the
Ruby killer. Ruby is also widely accepted at this time. It's concepts
and paradigm will be around for along time to come. If anything has
changed in the last decade maybe perl usage has slowed down. But perl
is not going anywhere anytime soon. Even awk is still used today.
Maybe not to the extent it was twenty and thirty years ago but it's
still a useful tool for what it's meant for.

I realize you have no interest in rails. There are many tools to
create dynamic web projects with. Many gems in the ruby world to aid
to that effect without using rails. Now the politics of evaluating and
educating your 'pointy haired boss' what tools and frameworks to use
outside of rails is left to your own discretion. I realize this wont
be simple task because your employer most likely has been pounded with
buzz terms such as 'agile' 'web2.0' 'refactoring' 'cloud' 'scrum'
'tdd' 'bdd' 'ruby on rails' 'ajax' and probably would have never heard
of this programming language from the far east if it wasn't for the
buzz in the last several years.

I wouldn't worry to much though about displacement. Ruby is here to stay.

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Robert Johns <piratej74@live.com> wrote:
> I was thinking today and I was wondering if ruby has a future when
> python is being to widely accepted. Outside of rails, because I have no
> want to code in rails.
>
> Thanks
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