# Re: Is ruby a viable corporate alternative?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-ruby-a-viable-corporate-alternative/77527>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 28, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-ruby-a-viable-corporate-alternative/77527 "2006-11-28T17:29:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-is-ruby-a-viable-corporate-alternative/77527/1 "2006-11-28T17:29:31Z")

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From: Mr P [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]

> Our team uses Perl for almost 100% of our projects, as we have for the  
> past 10 year or so. At that point we broke from the C/C++ herd and  
> never looked back. Our productivity has been the best in the  
> corporation since, and we hear nothing but complaints and bad-mouthing  
> from the Java/C++ cadre since their design and implementations are  
> typically 5-10X what ours are…

What do you need to accomplish with your programming? How important is  
quick development time? How important is high-speed performance of the  
code? Are you crunching numbers? Processing images? Scripting other  
applications? Creating web applications? Writing network applications?  
Interacting with databases? Processing large amounts of text?