From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-08-04T03:31:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Too bad I've found about Ruby

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:


> Dave Thomas wrote a 26000 lines ruby application in few months, he wrote a 
> short report at:
> http://www.zenspider.com/dl/rubyconf2002/SummerVacation.tgz
> 
> IIRC, his conclusion is something like "couldn't have done it in ruby, but 
> sometimes you have to look in the source to fix things when doing advanced 
> things".

To be fair, the conclusion was "couldn't have done it _without_ Ruby..."

:)


I think the OP has some valid concerns if he's straying into 
lower-levels of the language under Windows. However, if he sticks to 
more conventional code, I'd say Ruby and either wxWindows or Fox is a 
good bet, and the resulting code will probably be a lot easier to 
maintain and enhance than it would be in many other languages.


Cheers


Dave