From: Dossy Date: 2002-11-21T12:32:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Recruiter asks about Ruby... On 2002.11.20, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > 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?? The poor shmucks who are downstream from the initial programmers. You know, those poor sods called "maintenance programmers" -- those who inherit the code other people wrote before them. > > As an OO scripting language, how does it fit with > > Java and its partner in crime XML? There's a handful of various libraries available for manipulating XML data in Ruby. Very much like Java ... > > 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 ?? Ruby provides the same "quickness" of implementing features as Perl, but is less of a write-only language than Perl is, typically. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)