2009/7/29 Joseph Pearson <[email protected]>: > > There's no doubt that JRuby is an impressive technological > achievement, but with her mission, she's no friend of ours. Right now, > Ruby (and Rails) is our competitive advantage. We shouldn't be > worrying about how to get Ruby into enterprise. We should be worrying > about Ruby getting into enterprise.
You're so right! Charles Nutter is an evil genius and must be stopped. Imagine what would happen if the broader software development community picked up some of the good tools and techniques that Ruby developers use. They might start building better software! They might spend less time worrying about the nuts and bolts of software development, and more time focussing on things like customers, features, usability, etc. What a disaster! Of course we could take advantage of the advancement of software development practices to make even better tools, and come up with even better techniques, but the industry might catch up to those too. Where would it end? I mean, it could open up the possibility of developing whole new classes of software! Sounds like way too much hard work to me. I'm frightened now. Sure, we can murder Charles and keep it quiet (what happens in the Ruby community stays in the Ruby community.) But what happens if someone outside the Ruby community invents a cool software development tool? I shudder to think what might happen. This will be my last post on the list, as I'm going to give up software development and get a job digging ditches. People will always need ditches. - Pete --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
