From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T05:30:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Name Dropping

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
>  ...
> Personally I think the whole name dropping thing sounds like High School.


Yeah, perhaps.  But it can be a big help in grabbing attention.

For those who have never even heard of Ruby, it may seem like a great 
but essentially arcane, "here today, gone tomorrow" language that nobody 
actually uses outside of Japan.

Dropping names is not by itself an argument to use a language, but it 
conveys the idea that other people, whose opinions one might respect, 
have taken a look and found Ruby good and worth using.

The best selling point for Ruby is Ruby, but it helps if you can get 
people motivated enough to try learning a bit and writing some code.

James