From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2002-09-03T02:26:37+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

On Thursday 22 August 2002 12:07, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:16, Jim Menard wrote:
> > That is the only reason I translated DataVision from Ruby to Java. The
> > code feels bloated now, but at least the GUI runs everywhere without end
> > users having to install a GUI library.
>
> now that's interesting.
>
> would you consider porting back if we could give you a good GUI
> solution?

FWIW, the last three projects that I've started, the lack of a decent GUI was 
a main reason for not considering Ruby.  Reports are important too, but one 
runs across the GUI problem first.

Mind you, these were small, internal, projects,  but that's probably a much 
more common kind of thing to need done.