From: Mike Stephens Date: 2011-09-06T15:09:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby a "4th generation language"? Credible sources? True - once you've become sophisticated, you might as well enjoy it. The thing is the web sites I've been involved in over the last few years are all ultra-simple (partly to lead the customer to effortless purchase) - much the same as, say, call centre apps I used to program 30 years ago. Yet Rails is vastly more baffling than Focus - a thousand times more powerful but I'm not sure that's ever so useful. We used to do rapid changes to systems supporting hundreds of people selling thousands of policies an hour running a mainframe to the max yet not a single person felt they were missing a lambda. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.