<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Michael B. Trausch" <mike@trausch.us><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 5, 2015 11:50:45 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat<br><div><br></div><div></div><div>I like to write the heavy lifting in C++, and then use SWIG to generate the API for prototyping/automation/testing/etc., which keeps all the doors open anyway. Static C++ code is easier to support when you're not the one with the hands on the system, too. It's just amazing how many "IT professionals" will completely screw up your scripting code for no other reason than they could read it and they thought they could solve their problem without calling you, but they only made it worse instead, and they broke the system's remote access, and... well, you don't see IT n00bs really messing with ELF files all that much.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They don't touch my stuff. They only get to run it. Sometimes I may even run it through Acme::EyeDrops to so that they really can't touch it. No one sees my code. My goal is to use Linux to deliver a system to those that do not need to know Linux. I could be the only Linux system in your Windows shop. </div><div><br></div></div></body></html>