From: thucdat@... (Dat Nguyen)
Date: 2002-11-21T07:13:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Recruiter asks about Ruby...

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote in message news:<161c01c29021$1b2930c0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>...
> <sigh>
> 
> Someone saw Ruby on my resume and wants
> to know about it. I gave the two-sentence
> blurb, and she wants more.  :)
> 
> I'm composing an answer now, but any 
> assistance is appreciated. I'll forward
> your replies as I deem appropriate.
> 
> She describes herself as "only the sales
> geek." Her questions are:
> 
> > Okay. Please help to fill in the blanks.
> > 
> > I know that Perl is often used by Oracle dbas and
> > webmasters to provide reporting capabilities and 
> > provide website forms to put info into a database.
> > 
> > Who would benefit most from using Ruby??
> > 
> > As an OO scripting language, how does it fit with
> > Java and its partner in crime XML?
> > 
> > I guess the question is what does Ruby do and how is
> > it more beneficial than Perl, Python or Java and to 
> > what group of programmers, dbas, webmasters or ??
> 
> 
> Release the hounds!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Hal Fulton

This is not real, especially the question came from a Ruby evangalist,
pioneer and book author. In fact, the book 'The Ruby Way' should have
a chapter to describe the What and Why of Ruby.

dn