Help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

ruby-talk
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Heh. It’s a scripting language for Windows written by some dude at
MicroSoft… A screwy version is included in the resource kit for NT and
2000. I use it for writing logon scripts (and I don’t care what those
idiots at MicroSoft say, logon scripts are the best way to get the job
done…) and other scripts to automate stuff in a windows environment. It’s
a bout 5000% better than using a plain old .bat file, and about 5000%
cruddier than using Ruby.

Actually, it’s called Kixtart… check out the site if you are interested…

I’d much rather become a full linux head, than do Windoze. However, they
keep paying me… so…

Mark

From: Daniel Carrera [SMTP:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
Sent: 11 December 2002 23:06
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: help – persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Don’t feel bad. I’m stuck with writing stuff in KixStart. Ugh! Damn
Windoze environment!

Mark (MSCE) ← ug!

What is KixStart? (I’m a Linux guy, so I wouldn’t know).

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137

From: Ted [SMTP:ted@datacomm.com]
Sent: 11 December 2002 23:00
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; xrfang@hotmail.com
Cc: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: help – persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Unfortunately, people rise in management by NOT making waves…

Hi Phil,

You are absolutely right. What they fear is that:

  1. Currently only I understand Ruby.
  2. Java is in vogue. They want the language to be there after 10-20
    years…

I am currently writing a small introduction letter to my boss…

Shannon

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