From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T09:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

James Britt wrote:
> Douglas Livingstone wrote:
>> I've not been around long enough to know Ruby or the Ruby community
>> very well. There seems to be lots of politics going around which I
>> don't understand. 
> 
> Interesting; I just don't see it.  But maybe I've been blinded.

I think it's just a case of "the larger the population, the more
variance in individuals." There are always going to be a few
personality quirks in a few people; and the more we grow, the more
of it we'll see.

Remember that when Swift published _A Modest Proposal_ -- probably
the most blatant example of irony in the English language -- there
were people who took it as a serious proposition.


Hal