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On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Joan I. wrote:
In a company that you have to make money by your time, this is not a
good philosophy. Of course I understand that the improvements in the
syntax and all this is good…, I cannot modify my programs so many
times with the risk of making mistakes because of the language…
Ahem, there’s a lot of us that make money by our time… as a self
employed contractor, it’s all I have. As such I’d rather use Ruby -
I can get more programming done in a given amount of time, which
makes the customer happy and yields repeat business.
The changes are rarely big enough cause major problems; It’s not
like the language suddenly looks like a brand new language; they are
not going to introduce python’s whitespace rules or anything.
When a new release comes out, you just read through the changelog
(someone will make a list of incompatibilities, I’m sure) and then
use your tools… search, source code management.
Run a test system with your unit tests. (You do have a formal testing
procedure, right?)
Perl has had its own share of backwards compatibility issues. I
think it sounds like you are trying to find an excuse to block ruby
in your organization.
These same methods should have been employed by everyone who got
burned by the 1.1 release of rails. It’s not that the changes were
all that big, but some simple testing would have eased the transition.
David M.
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