Ruby or Not Ruby ... and some ORM/Relational Database vs Object Database Stuff
Scott Hanselman started yet another great debate ... on Ruby and why it is the '***' ...
Today I came across a great artice (via Frans Bouma), called In Defence of the RDBMS - a very well written debunk of a number or database theorist's views.
The two get mentioned together as I loved the comment half way through the RDBMS article that said:
It might be nice if the whole world used Java, but they don't. And Java won't last forever. Really it won't. Heh, that's fine by me, just as long as it's not Ruby that replaces it (I feel safe to say stuff like this, since I am guarded around the clock by an elite team of five hundred crack female IDF commando ninjas armed with the big machine guns out of Alien II).
This made me chuckle... but the comment at the end made me laugh out loud:
P.S. This was something I wrote a while ago, but never posted because I felt it was too intemperate. The Ruby cracks are a bit dated now that the Rails hype has faded and most people are getting back to doing real work.
And that for me sort of sums up Ruby ... great lanuguage, and no wonder the Alpha Geeks love it ... but I have to do work today ... and for that Ruby isn't the answer (today)