Re: [Aaron-devel] What language to use for aaron (short and long term)?

[Morgan E. <mo...@ta...>]

You seem to think that I'm arguing w/ the quality of Ruby. I'm not. I haven't
researched very much, so I don't know.

I understand about hacking a language and developing, and a language is just a
syntax. But before you develop anything in a new language there is a learning
curve. I'm not talking about finding the functions. I'm talking about the subtle
nuances to a language, that don't surface until you have developed in it for
some time.  There are quirks, advantages that you can't seem just get by reading
through a language or a spec. You have to develop with the language to
understand those nuances.

If we are developing something a prototype, then the most effective way would be
to develop in something that all of us have developed in.  That is the advantage
of developing w/ a team like this.  I mean, it is going to take us 4 times as
long to develop a prototype in Ruby, then it would in PHP.  So even if Ruby is
better or easier to port to C, the time it takes to learn Ruby costs us.  It
isn't an effective management decision of the project.

I mean the Object Space, sounds like Java's reflection. The marshalling and
unmarshalling is like Java, it is exactly what Castor does for Java objects. Why
not use Java, at least we have some experience in that?

Morgan