From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-12-29T02:55:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity Hello Neil, NS> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:10:42 +0000, Thursday wrote: >> I think Ruby's popularity is growing, but I can't help but wonder what >> we can do to accelerate its adoption. NS> Why, what do you hope to achieve? More people means more project and more extensions. Bugs are found much earlier and are fixed earlier. And a more successfull language (in commercial sense) will result in much more university projects that do some nice experimental and sophisticated stuff. Having people too use ruby in ther Ph.D thesis is important. But since they now that this thesis is important for finding a job later they use java and other mainstream languages. And yes, some people like it to make money with ruby and work 8 hours a day with ruby and not java. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's