From: Archit Baweja <bighead@...>
Date: 2004-03-26T23:36:01+09:00
Subject: Re: About Ruby

Hey

I'm Indian =D and I use ruby. Also I work on a relatively large Ruby project
ORE - O Ruby Editor for Gnome (well just an IDE based on Ruby/Gtk+, and please
hold them re-inventing the wheel flames regarding the IDE). (Note2: well ORE
isn't that big a project right now, but will be as time goes by)

So I would say that Ruby is definitely good for big projects, though people
tend to shy away from it for big project initially. Hell! IMO Ruby's dynamicity
helps solve some pretty tough problems very easily as compared to relatively
static languages like Java/C++.

Cheers!
Archit

P.S. ORE's website is at http://ore.rubyforge.org/ (cheap attempt at project
marketing =D)

"Sabyasachi  Mustafi" <sabymus@rediffmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>   I am with Ruby in the last 6 months. But I have some specific question to all of you. 
> 
> 1. I am in West Bengal (India). I don't find a single Ruby book in any book shop. What is the problem? Without a single book it is not possible to learn a language. I have to work 10-12 hours to solve a very simple problem in Ruby/Tk just lack of document and books.
> 
> 2. I think just 10-15 people in India knows Ruby. Whenever I ask somebody about Ruby he don't understand what the Ruby is all about.
> 
> 3. In the big projects anybody use Ruby? If it is so good (and surely it is) then why it don't compete with Java, C++ etc.?
> 
>   I want to be with Ruby but I need some specific path for it. I hope everybody will participate in this question.
> 
> Thanking you,
> Sabyasachi Mustafi