From: jason r tibbetts Date: 2004-01-17T05:38:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame Quoting gabriele renzi : > il Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:17:17 +0900, Lothar Scholz > ha scritto:: > > >And yes there are real technical problems why i wouldn't use ruby for > >larger applications. The common programming style of for example > >adding functions to base classes like Array are a reason why i would > >not recommend the language for large application programming. > > Wonderful how you met my expcetations :) > It seem there are lot of people that thinks like you. > But you can even do this in SmallTalk, IIRC, and ST has been around > for many years with really big apps, what's wrong with ruby ? This is a good point. If Ruby had been better-known in Europe & the US in the late 90s, when Smalltalk shops were emigrating to Java en masse, perhaps it would have seen widespread use in the enterprise. A friend of mine, who was a longtime Smalltalker before being forced to use Java, would love Ruby's "everything's-an-object" philosophy. Hey, if IBM entrusted enormous financial apps to a dynamic language like Smalltalk, then anything's possible. As for wider adoption, I'd like to find a Ruby-to-GUI binding not just for Tk, but for gtk, MFC, or (the holy grail) Aqua on OS X. -- jason :wq ___________________________________________________________ This mail sent using ToadMail -- Web based e-mail @ ToadNet