[ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

On 08/06/2015 01:05 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> Except, the Ruby program can be edited on the destination system if need
> be. The Go program, in the described scenario, would have to be edited and
> recompiled elsewhere.

In a 1-man shop, editing on prod is fine.

In any larger org, it should lead to termination.  I've seen hundreds of
"tiny changes" bring down production systems because they bypassed
dev-test, pre-prod, and deployment processes.


Yes - I've done it a few times too. Now I know better.