[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:03881] Re: JRuby?

From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2000-07-06 16:47:44 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3881
"Conrad Schneiker" wrote:
> 
> ...
> That's only a good reason if you really need something like that. As Perl
> has shown, there is an enormous amount of work out there that doesn't (not
> to mention an enormous amount of work that would be better done in Ruby :-)
> 
> But if you think you really need it, the first question should be, what do
> you want to accomplish?
> ...
> 
A fair question.  Java has portable gui's.  Not perfect, but pretty 
good.  Java is embeddable in web pages for "safely" ??downloading.  Java 
has support for threading (ok, that's probably a pretty temporary 
advantage).  Anything else?



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