From: Iain 'Spoon' Truskett <spoon@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T08:09:32+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

* Shannon Fang (xrfang@hotmail.com) [12 Dec 2002 09:42]:
> Hi Phil,

> You are absolutely right. What they fear is that:

> 1. Currently only I understand Ruby.
> 2. Java is in vogue. They want the language to be there
>    after 10-20 years...

It's been in vogue since release (which someone else in the list said
was probably 1996). That's 6 years of vogueness.

May as well argue for straight C or Perl. C's been in vogue for 20-30
years and Perl's been in and out of vogue for around a decade. Ruby's
new and untried.

I'd like to see Ruby be more widely used. You just need to be able to
show your boss that it won't vanish in a year or two, when someone
writes Peridot or Opal.

I'd love to have $WORK convert from Perl to Ruby, but I'm having enough
fun getting them to use more Perl 5 features than Perl 4.


cheers,
-- 
Iain.