From: ser@... (Sean Russell) Date: 2004-05-07T10:13:57+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved? Paul Vudmaska wrote in message news:<409A7AC8.2040403@vudmaska.com>... > Luckily, my clients could give a darn what I use. They do see > productivity. They like that. That's always nice, when you encounter people like that. I've been stuck as a contractor for the past 8 years, and people who hire contractors tend to be more touchy about what the project is written in -- they want to be able to maintain it after you're gone. I had one client, once, who didn't really care. He had an app that was 10 years old that he was still maintaining and growing. Unfortunately, he *really* didn't care what it was written in, and by the time I got to it, it was a total hodgepodge of C, Bash, Perl, TCL -- even Pascal. Believe me, it is times like that when I totally approve of language fascists. Nonetheless, I couldn't resist throwing Ruby into the mix, and I got rid of a small chunk of Bash script while I was at it. > Ouch. I did a lot of server side stuff w/javscript. We had about 10 Oh, don't get me started on Javascript. I'm sure it is better than VB, but I've got a lot of bones to pick with JS. The OO stuff is just nasty. It looks like a language that was designed by a committee... oh, wait! It was! Anyway, nothing personal. If you can get along with JS, then good for you. There is a lot of use for JS, especially if you're doing any web front-end stuff. It certainly is ubiquitous; I've had to do a fair amount of it myself. > Plenty of folks out there mandate a browser - usually IE. For solutions > that i could ensure the browser to by moz, using a ruby interp would be > grrreat! As anybody who reads this group knows, I have an ulterior motive for wanting Ruby in Mozilla... because Ruby would then suddenly have access to both a really nice, fairly ubiquitous GUI toolkit, and a peerless application distribution mechanism. --- SER