Re: one interview question, 17 lines in java, 3 lines in ruby.

From:
 Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:27:34 -0000
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On Sep 20, 5:56 am, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:

Daniel Pitts wrote:

Although, I don't typically think of this as a problem I need to solve
often. How is ruby at real problems, like writing a web app that can
handle 60+ million hits per day?


How about a system to take in >100 million documents in a matter of weeks,
parse them for adherence to certain surface edits, then pass them on to a
mainframe for further processing, load-balanced across geographically
disparate server farms, each server with 32 CPUs, programmed by several teams
with a few dozen developers overall, and have no downtime?

I'm working on one of those now, and it's in Java (JEE). Could Ruby deal with
that, I wonder?

Static type-checking alone probably saves my customer a few hundred million
dollars a year.

Jet liners are the cat's meow when you have too many passengers to fit on a
hang glider.

--
Lew


Indeed. For prototyping, I'd probably choose Python over Ruby
anyway :-)

Or, I would use the built-in Rhino engine. JavaScript is actually a
very interesting language if you get over its sordid past.

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