From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T05:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Name Dropping

Jim Weirich wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 11:18 pm, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> 
>>I'm in the final leg of preparing for a presentation I'm giving on Friday
>>to Java programmers on Rails. At one point in the presentation, I need to
>>mention the names of a few well known (in our industry) people who are also
>>Ruby enthusiasts.
> 
> 
> Mike Clark, author of "Pragmatic Project Automation", is a Ruby fan.  You can 
> see some of his Ruby related blogs at: 
> http://www.clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/Software/Ruby

That may be starting to get obscure (no offense to Mike Clark).

But if we mention him, we might also mention Jack Herrington, author of
(the excellent) _Code Generation in Action_. Anecdotally, the publisher
expressed reticence about using Ruby for the book since "people don't
know it." But Jack said he would use Ruby or he wouldn't do the book.


Hal