From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T20:49:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E01: The Java Failure - May Ruby Helps?

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:17:20 +0900, craig duncan
<craig-duncan@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I've seen the "maybe that should go on the wiki" response quite a few times.  My
> thought about that, though, is when i have problems, i do google searches.  I've
> found a lot of answers in ruby-talk but i've never found anything from the wiki.
> There's probably a very obvious reason for that.

I was going to explain my take on this, but by the time I got finished
reading your post it was pretty clear that you already know the
answer. ;)

If I know what it is I'm looking for, and I'm just not sure where to
find it, I use Google. For the most part, Wikis are more useful (to
me) for accidentally stumbling across interesting things. For example,
I might visit a Wiki and see that article X has been updated recently,
so I scan it just to see what it's about. That article links to
article Y on the same Wiki, and so I follow the link, and sometimes
serendipity kicks in and I find something interesting.