From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T06:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advertisement article [Computerwoche]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 16:23, Armin Roehrl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    Stefan and I are writing an 10'000 character long article for the 
> German Computerwoche,
> which is a bit like the yellow press of computer magazines, but surprisingly
> all IT-strategists (whatever that means) and managers in Germany do read
> it every week.
> 
> This is a no-code article, only bla bla and economic data, if possible
> in man years and in US-Dollars/Euros. I know the qns below mean
> nothing about the quality of Ruby, etc. but I think for the acceptance
> of Ruby we can gain a majof victory, if we produce the right kind of
> business talk.
> 
> 
> - Can we estimate how many man years of work have gone into Ruby?
> - Can we quote sb. mentionning a concrete project, saying .. doing it
> in Ruby was much faster than doing it in Java/C#?

Writing the "Dashboard" utility:

https://ultraforge.ultralog.net/

was certainly much faster and easier in Ruby than in Java.  I found the
biggest gains to be:

- Ruby's concise XML parsing capabilities
- prototyping and refining were much simpler than in Java since Ruby is
interpreted

I wrote an article about the Dashboard here:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/09/10/dashboard.html

which you're certainly welcome to reference, too.

Yours,

Tom