O’ Sorry Im so use to top-posting as it part of the rule at our company.
Lennie De Villiers
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From: Lennie DeVilliers [mailto:Lennie@kwikpay.co.za]
Subject: Re: Ruby advertisement article [Computerwoche]Sorry guys, sent the message by mistake (Ctrl + Enter) before
finnishing my
comments.Ruby is an interpreter language, we’re running it on a Linux
server… I
dont know if there’s a compiler avialable (?) Actually that
doesnt matter to
me as Ruby runs very fast.
- Is it possible to create distributable binaries that don’t require
a Ruby installation?Check code written 10/20 yrs ago! Code at that stage was COMPLETELLY
unreadable.
You can write obfuscate code in any programming language.
- Is it possible to obfuscate code so that it is no longer readable
(that question did come up elsewhere when C# was fresh and someone
wrote a tool that created quite readable C# code from CLI
instructions).I guest that depends on the business facts.
- How to deal with the choice between two licenses?
Very! I wrote the server scripts on my MS Win 2000 PC and
they ran without
making any changes on our Linux server.
- How portable are Programs written in Ruby?
For decades Perl & Python was use on Linux, Ruby isnt so old but in
comparision with those I say Perl have the most docs, then Ruby, then
Python.
- How does Ruby compare to Perl and Python in terms of availability
of libraries available books, other documentation and libraries?I once ported a C++ app over to a Ruby script, the script is
running much
faster in comparison.
Even if its a interpreted language the speed isnt a question.
- Why switch from a compiled language to an interpreted language?
Lennie De Villiers
wow!! this was the weirdest case of top-posting i’ve ever seen 
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