From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T12:07:37+09:00
Subject: [OT] in search of a compelling reason to use ruby....



> You can use Ruby for large projects as well.  There are rumors of
20,000 
> to 30,000 line Ruby programs here.  Personally, I don't think I've
written 
> anything that was more than ~5000 lines of Ruby - of course, in my 
> experience, 5K lines of Ruby packs about the same functionality as 
> 20K to 25K lines of C++ code.

Real world example: I'm writing a code-review tool at work (get the list
of files changed on the review, pop a diff, attach a comment etc...).
On a previous project we had a similar tool written in python,
maintained by the local python guru/zealot. It just run the files in
order to poped the diff tool, and generated a text file for comments. 
My current projet versioning system is sufficiently different that I
could get away with doing a similar thing in ruby. I didn't port his
code (as it's vaguely incomprehensible), but wrote from scratch. Ended
up with about the same amount of code. Does the all of the same, but
also includes a full featured GUI... :-)