From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-16T08:37:55+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby"
    on 02/12/12, "Shannon Fang" <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:

|>it's the MATZ'S position that Ruby will never be REAL WORLD language.
|>it's his own toy and never will appreciate features needed for
|>corporate use
|Is it really Matz's opinion, and the direction of Ruby?

I don't think so.  Ruby was his toy at the beginning, but this fact
does not mean it remains being a toy forever.  Speaking of "features
needed for corporate use", we have to define what they are.  I'm sure
that Ruby will never be COBOL.  For THAT kind of "corporate use", my
company sponsors opencobol as well as Ruby.

							matz.