From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-01-11T01:39:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

Premshree Pillai wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:38:50 +0900, James Britt
> <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> 
>>Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>In message "Re: Python vs Ruby"
>>>    on Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:05:16 +0900, Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>|> The lack of English documentation was the biggest
>>>|> (perhaps only) weakness in Ruby.
>>>|
>>>|Exactly. I don't see any other reason why Ruby didn't take off as well
>>>|as Python.
>>>
>>>I don't think so.  You have more English documents than in Japanese
>>>these days.  So that the reason should be "the lack of documentation"
>>>at most.  You might know that many among open source developers are
>>>not good document writers (including myself).
>>
>>Well, I'm inclined to blame "LAMP".
>>
>>People are encouraged to use suboptimal tools for a task simply because
>>the tool name fits a snappy acronym.
>>
>>If matz had only picked a name that began with "P", rather than "R" ...
> 
> 
> Heh, once one of my friends called me a LAMeR. :D

That's pretty funny. =) Well if you drop the 'L' you can get:

RAM

Ruby, Apache, MySQL

And now you have a larger target audience of both Linux users, Windows 
users, and those Mac folk to!

And if you like the naming convention of the Auto Industry you could do a:

RAM oLXW

Ruby, Apache, MySQL on Linux/OS X/Windows


Zach