From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-04T04:00:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Too bad I've found about Ruby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Thomas" <dave@pragprog.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 1:31 PM
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..."
>
> :)

:) Picky, picky...

> 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.

wxWindows?? Is that stable yet? Did you mean
something else?

Hal