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On 10/4/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel / path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> Francis, you make good points in your reply (snipped). I was asking why
> the blurb claimed that "relatively little has been said about Ruby's
> usefulness in enterprise development shops", though there is a book on
> the subject. I should have made clearer I was talking about the
> ruby-talk posting, and not your article.


Ah sorry, thanks for clarifying. I suppose the operative word in my sentence
is "relatively." There has started to be some good commentary on Ruby for
enterprises (Dave Thomas' recent talk also), but by volume it's still
"relatively little." Part of my goal in writing about this is to incite more
conversation on the subject ;-). But again, I'll stress my POV that Ruby has
benefits to offer enterprises not just for people who already know and love
to program in Ruby, but for many other people as well, and I think this is a
very key point. Enterprise infrastructure could possibly be a new "killer
application" (ouch, sorry to be trite) for Ruby.

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