From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-12-16T14:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> > And how does Ruby, or ~any~ of the above stack up with regard to the
> > "next big thing", which is likely to be some kind of distributed/grid
> > computing environment, possibly XML-based?
>
> Interesting. Who's speculating along those lines?

i just did a balsa wood prototype used in a funds pitch made for a grid
computing system being proposed for use here at NOAA which would be used for
testing modifications done to weather models.  apparently lots of money is
being thrown at this idea, but i'm way down the food chain so i don't know
alot (almost nothing really) about it.  perhaps this is one time where the
government is ahead of current trends!

btw.  i *never* could have done the prototype under the given time constraints
in the other languages i know (c, c++, java, or perl) - ruby saved the day for
me. just thought i'd throw that in there ;-)

-a

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