On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:00:03AM +0900, Ruby Maniac wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2:40 pm, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan... / gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We know how slow it is and whether or not it is important.
> > We're not really worried about it, but we do look forward to upcoming  
> > speed increases..
> > What we are generally interested in is doing things and making things  
> > with Ruby :)
> > Focus on that, and you'll find that Ruby is either good or not for you.
> > People here generally use other languages as well, and are not Ruby  
> > only people.
> > We appreciate Ruby because of other languages in many cases.
> > There is actually a great deal of pragmatism in the Ruby community.
> > If there is a better approach that is not Ruby we will recommend it  
> > and use it.
> 
> The feeling that there is only one tool for all tasks generally leads
> to the failure to recognize the right tool for the right job.
> 
> I have a nice big basket of languages I can draw upon when making
> assessments as to which one might be best suited to a particular task
> rather than only using one language for everything at the expense of
> he who employs me since it can take quite some time to make Ruby work
> in place of a better method for coding stored procs such as when SQL
> Server 2005 is being used and C# might be a better choice in terms of
> runtime performance.

Okay, here's where I'm ready to call troll. Compare and contrast the
paragraph above with this quote from a previous message by "Ruby Maniac":

> Recently I was given the task of importing data from one SQL Server
> 2005 database to another and rather than allow a co-worker use C#
> to code a faster way to accomplish this I chose to use Ruby even
> though the work took weeks to complete and that Moron who wanted to
> use C# might have completed the work in less than a day I know Ruby
> as a superior language is well worth the weeks of time my team has
> invested in the process or doing a rather simple data import task.
> Ruby rocks !

Yeah. That'd be a direct contradiction.

*plonk*

--Greg