Glue! As perl was, so ruby is becoming (a nice glue.) I like JRuby, cause it lets me use the gynormous amount of java libs in terse, "powerful", ruby without j

Glue! As perl was, so ruby is becoming (a nice glue.) I like JRuby, cause it lets me use the gynormous amount of java libs in terse, "powerful", ruby without jumping through hoops. Why are so many people afraid/resistant to this paradigm?