On 11.01.10 15:27, Paul Brannan wrote: > ... In the end I went on a > 2-month vacation, and when I came back, the entire application had been > rewritten in C++. > > (in Ruby's defense here, the next 1-2 months of my time when I got back > were spent fixing the C++ code and adding missing features. So the > perceived cost of C++ was lower, but in the end the actual cost ended up > being much higher than the team expected). and is it faster/more responsive now? [murphy]