Lennie DeVilliers
11/27/2003 2:31:00 PM
Hello,
Just some comments from me.
Dont know it! Do've a link please?
>'Computerwoche'? Never heard of :-| How does it compare to c't and ix
>(that those people *should* be reading)?
I've been programming in diffirent languages: Delphi, C++, Java, VB, C#,
Python/Jyhon, Perl, Rebol, Rexx & Ruby. I find apps written in Ruby easy to
maintain and after writting something I can put it on a server and forget
about it! (isnt the same with our C++ apps!!)
>- How much manpower is needed to *maintain* software (usually a very
> time-consuming task)?
Ruby is just like Java- a free programming language (1 no cost to buy
development tools etc)
I dont know if one get any Ruby books (I've been working in Ruby for 6
months & taught myself) Even for someone that doesnt have any programming
exprience it would be easy to crasp Ruby.
>- Costs of introducing Ruby - in terms of training, not of
> hard/software. Oops, big trap: Are there any professional Ruby
> courses and if they exist: is an in-house option available?
? You might need to look at the licencing of the software.
>- Can using Ruby mean running into trouble when exporting software to
> China or Korea (due to some historical facts concerning Japan and
> these countries)? - I don't like asking that question but from a
> business point of view it has to be asked :-|
- Is it possible to create distributable binaries that don't require
a Ruby installation?
- Is it possible to obfuscate code so that it is no longer readable
(that question did come up elsewhere when C# was fresh and someone
wrote a tool that created quite readable C# code from CLI
instructions).
- How to deal with the choice between two licenses?
- How portable are Programs written in Ruby?
- How does Ruby compare to Perl and Python in terms of availability
of libraries available books, other documentation and libraries?
- Why switch from a compiled language to an interpreted language?
Just my 0.02 EUR,
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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