From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT Date: 2004-05-04T15:42:14+09:00 Subject: Re: What do you use Ruby for? At 02:18 04/05/2004 +0900, you wrote: >OK, the more I read about Ruby (currently on page 29 of the FAQ, >having read Matz' (translated) user-guide, the more I like it. The >funny thing is that Smalltalk is one of those languages I've always >wanted to learn, but never quite got to grips with. Ruby seems to >have a lot Smalltalk, but packaged up in nice wrapping paper. > >The downside for me is that generally I can't see myself using Ruby >day-to-day at work, because it's not ALL that common for me to require >a scripting language. That said, if I could push myself to find >reasons, I'd really like to use it more and more. And I'll certainly >be trying!! > >I guess it's primary use would be for dynamic web pages, just like >Perl etc. but as I don't get involved in that kind of thing, that's >no good to me. > >So what do YOU use Ruby for? What kinds of development are you using >it for (I'm not asking for trade secrets or anything!). I personally use it to prototype a RAD telephony framework that should start working when it will be about 50 000 lines of code (15 000 as of today). I hope that some of the prototype will be production quality and that delivering will mainly imply optimizing small portion of the Ruby code. I am yet unsure about the exact extend because Ruby is rather slow for some of my needs. On the OTOH I think I have never been that much productive in my life. So, I am pretty sure that betting on Ruby was a good choice. If speed is less an issue, I believe that Ruby can do what Perl can do. You may have less libraries but you get a nicer object oriented syntax. Give it a try, you'll get hooked. Ruby: The drug language ;-) Oh. And it's fun too. Yours, Jean-Hugues ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://hdl.handle.net/1030.37/1.1 Phone: +33 (0) 4 92 27 74 17