From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T07:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Jim,
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:54:46 +0900
Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:

> 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. ;)
Unfortunately, I am not the decision maker :(

> Don't forget about maintainability. After unit tests, this is my
> mantra for Ruby.
What is unit tests?

> 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.
Now this trick won't work EVER in a company. I have tried many times
before in other companies about other stuff, like Apache, Linux... My
experience tell me that they don't trust freebies... For Ruby my hope is
they can believe we have in-house support ability any time...

Shannon