Ruby: Answer The Damn Question! 7
I came across this post today called "Large Enterprises and why they don't care about Ruby". In it, the author says that Large Enterprises don't care about Ruby, which I think is a case that we could argue to an extent, but we don't need to, because there's no "why" in there.
Does:
Name one system Fortune 200 enterprise that has a mission-critical system written in a dynamic language. Of course, you can't.
mean that they don't care about Ruby? No, it says nothing about a company caring about Ruby.
And let's see:
JPMorgan uses Cincom Smalltalk's VisualWorks as the technological "engine" of their KAPITAL system, which is the world's most advanced financial risk management and pricing system. (1)
Fortune 200? Check. Mission-critical? Check. Dynamic Language? Check.
That took all of 30 seconds of Googling.
The rest of the post is similarly lacking in substance. I'm no Ruby zealot, but I was hoping to join the discussion about Ruby’s place in the Enterprise. So answer the damn question, James McGovern, why don’t they care about Ruby?
hoodwink.d
This site is now officially hoodwink.d. I've joined the party...
News Flash: Java Dying 2
Don't use it for your next web project. When the news gets in to BusinessWeek, it clearly must be true. Oh, and cue the Ruby zealots...
The Problem With Ruby 2
I've been writing a lot of Ruby code lately, and I think that my friend Ryan best expressed the biggest problem that I've seen with it so far:
The problem is that I get something done in two lines of code that I normally get done in about 10 in another language, but I always seem to sit there thinking that there must be a way to do it in one
Not the worst problem in the world to have.
