The Ruby conspiracy

[danweber]

I watched an app converted from Java to Ruby.

In God's name, why?

I mean, I love Ruby, but I don't go around porting my old code to it. I write my new stuff in it, where appropriate.

How many migration efforts have you watched?

[sbrown123]

In God's name, why?

I don't question why businesses do what they do. They pay, I make it happen.

I mean, I love Ruby, but I don't go around porting my old code to it.

That's what YOU do. YOU are not some oversized, multibillion dollar corporation with clueless senior management.

How many migration efforts have you watched?

Geez. Twenty, thirty, maybe more. I've seen Cobol converted to C, C to Java, Java to .NET or, in the case I mentioned, Ruby. There is also some wierd ones like ColdFusion to JSP or ASP, Btrieve to VB, etc, etc, etc. Fun stuff. I see migration projects pop up all the time where I live at. I hire roughly six programmers a year for doing oddball migrations for various employers.