From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T07:59:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Thursday wrote:
> I think Ruby's popularity is growing, but I can't help but wonder 
> what we can do to accelerate its adoption.
> 
> 1. a more formal release process
> 
> 2. a bug tracking system where we can report and view bugs
> 
> 3. last but not least, online docs on Ruby's primary website

I think that the following agenda will be better:

1. DGDATAT
2. DGDATAT
3. DGDATAT

DGDATAT: Do good deeds and talk about them.

By that I mean that the best way of making popular *any* programming
language is not meeting some formal requirements on how the language is
developed and documented but rather by writing good "everybody wants to
have" software and libraries in Ruby and talk about them whenever you
see the slightest chance someone may be interested in them.

When trying to talk people into the use of Ruby I often face responses
like these:

"Is there a Ruby library to do X?"
"Has someone written a Ruby program to do Y?"

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
-- 
Where on the ringworld does that 'Lord of the Rings' guy live?