From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T11:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: New Ruby book

Albert Chou wrote:

> I think to be fair you need to try out BeanShell.  I've played with it 
> for a few minutes at a time, and I think it's pretty safe to say it 
> lacks some of Ruby's important features, but I really think to convince 
> your coworkers, you personally need to have some experience in what 
> you're trying to steer them away from, otherwise you're committing a 
> similar error to the one they are in lumping Ruby in with all other 
> scripting languages.

That's a fair comment!  All I'd really done was do some reading about
BeanShell, but it sounded too little like a real scripting language for
my taste.

Fortunately, I didn't read this until others had replied, pointing out some
of the inadequacies of BeanShell; certainly enough for me to not want to be
stuck using it.

Now, I can just make those points, rather than having to suffer the pain
of finding out for myself :-).

Cheers,

Harry O.