From: "Brandon J. Van Every" Date: 2003-08-20T07:05:38+09:00 Subject: Why would you abandon Ruby? (was) Sean O'Dell wrote: > > My point here is, I have yet to hear of a single person who left Ruby > for another scripting language. But... what does it prove? It doesn't prove that Ruby is the reason. It could be, that people who find out about Ruby in the 1st place, have the developmental luxury to try languages such as Ruby. And not the production pressure to abandon them for something else. Industrial relevance was another question I was going to ask later, if need be, but you have precipitated it. > I'm sure people have left Ruby for certain pragmatic reasons ("my job > requires me to write in Perl" or "Ruby just isn't as fast as assembly"), > but I have trouble imagining even one person leaving Ruby because it > wasn't a good enough script language for them. On the subject of pragmatism, you are echoing my thinking. I am curious why you think such pragmatic concerns "don't count." Nobody has left Ruby... except those who have left Ruby? > but I doubt you can find any Ruby-expatriates among the group of people > who have given it a solid try. Ok, that's a more nuanced statement. I don't feel like chasing all over Google for such answers, as I seriously doubt they are findable that way. Rather, I'll stick a wet finger in the air and ask a question. Pythonistas go to Ruby Heaven when they die. :-) Where do Rubicons go? I guess your answer is, "they live forever." But maybe others have a different idea. -- Cheers, www.3DProgrammer.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA 20% of the world is real. 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.