From: Jim Freeze Date: 2002-12-13T06:54:46+09:00 Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 6:15:13 +0900, Shannon Fang wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:48:02 +0900 > GBanschbach@sandata.com wrote: > > Actually, the BIGGEST problem for them now is only ONE: supportability. Like I said before: Program in ruby for 2 days and you will know the language better than perl (possibly java/c++). Any programmer at your workplace worthy of their paycheck should be able to be a fluent ruby programmer within a week. If not, then you've just identified someone that you can get rid of. ;) Don't forget about maintainability. After unit tests, this is my mantra for Ruby. > Now only I know Ruby, and they just say that it is not a widely used > language etc. I will have some change of debate in the future, may be > next January/February. > It is more popular than Python in Japan. The support I have received from this mailing list is far better than any support that I paid Microsoft for...and a lot cheaper. -- Jim Freeze ---------- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.