Ruby

Prolific On Ruby blogger Pat Eyler has teamed up with software development books publisher Apress to sponsor a Ruby/Ruby on Rails blogging contest...

I can't resist contributing my own modest viewpoint to the debate that has been sparked by a recent pair of posts ("Language Wars" and "Wasabi") by Joel Spolsky regarding his company's use of a proprietary, home-grown language called Wasabi to produce the company's FogBugz product. Joel in the same posts shared his view that Ruby is not up to full enterprise production snuff (my paraphrasing), which triggered defensive responses by Ruby on Rails founder David Hansson, "Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky" (sic) and "Was Joel's Wasabi a joke?".

I stopped reading Hal Fulton's interview when he said it was a good idea to "sneak" Ruby into production. Part of programming professionalism includes self-discipline and creating solutions with tools that the corporation knows about. Not, passive aggressive technical games. Passive aggression merely makes actual social change, and even corporate change, that much more difficult.