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Re: Ruby is exploding onto the scene as Java did at the end of 1990s
by Charles O Nutter other posts by this author
Aug 17 2006 1:26PM messages near this date

Re: Ruby is exploding onto the scene as Java did at the end of 1990s | Re: Ruby is exploding onto the scene as Java did at the end of 1990s

On 8/17/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@[...].com>  wrote:
> 
>  On 8/17/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@[...].com> wrote:
>  >>> if Ruby offers
>  a compelling business reason to switch from language X, it will start to
>  get
>  that backing, that PR, and that push into the commercial and enterprise
>  worlds.<<<
> 
>  Do you think Ruby offers that compelling business reason today?


Without question. It needs to gain a little maturity, but that will only
come with larger-scale use and onging research and development. I think now
is the time.

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