From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T05:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Name Dropping

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 04:14 pm, Hal Fulton wrote:
| 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.


Personally I think the whole name dropping thing sounds like High School.

T.