From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T23:21:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advertisement article [Computerwoche]

Hi!

* Armin Roehrl; 2003-11-26, 23:48 UTC:
> 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.

'Computerwoche'? Never heard of :-| How does it compare to c't and ix
(that those people *should* be reading)?

> - 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#?
> - Any other good ideas?

Some question to deal with:

- How much manpower is needed to *maintain* software (usually a very
  time-consuming task)?

- Costs of introducing Ruby - in terms of training, not of
  hard/software. Oops, big trap: Are there any professional Ruby
  courses and if they exist: is an in-house option available?

- Can using Ruby mean running into trouble when exporting software to
  China or Korea (due to some historical facts concerning Japan and
  these countries)? - I don't like asking that question but from a
  business point of view it has to be asked :-|

- Is it possible to create distributable binaries that don't require
  a Ruby installation?

- Is it possible to obfuscate code so that it is no longer readable
  (that question did come up elsewhere when C# was fresh and someone
  wrote a tool that created quite readable C# code from CLI
  instructions).

- How to deal with the choice between two licenses?

- How portable are Programs written in Ruby?

- How does Ruby compare to Perl and Python in terms of availability
  of libraries available books, other documentation and libraries?

- Why switch from a compiled language to an interpreted language?

Just my 0.02 EUR,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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