From: Pete McBreen <pete@...>
Date: 2003-07-29T04:23:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Fishing for ideas: Ruby-talk for Java coders

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:06  am, Armin Roehrl wrote:
>
> I am only fishing for ideas. What would you focus on? We have 60 
> minutes of talking time.
>

I would suggest the use of Ruby as a tool to assist in Java development
	- command line utilities
	- simple file handling
	- prototyping ideas/algorithms

> I guess we /must/ mention interoperability with Java.
>

I do not see why. Ruby is unlikely to replace Java, so position it as a 
complimentary tool that does other useful stuff.



Pete
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