This is a great broadcast from the Burton Group. The interviewer, Richard Monson-Haefel, quoted below, is the author of several excellent books on Java, including Enterprise JavaBeans.

The teleconference begins with an overview, first of Ruby, then Rails. Here’s the snippet I just loved:

(Ruby is) generally what I would consider to be a step up in the evolution of programming languages. Compared to Java and C# in terms of the capabilities and the level of abstraction it provides you.

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