From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T01:49:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Comments on starting with Ruby

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:35:01 +0900, JC <umptious@gmail.com> wrote:

> If such basic tools and docs are shakey  they can create FUD that
> affects potential users' view of the whole language. A couple of extra
> paragraphs on IRB in the Pragmatic book, pulling FreeRIDE (or
> disabling the debugger) in the Windows distribution until the debugger
> is usable, and a few extra sentences in the Ruby GDB-ish debugger's
> help could make a huge difference to how the language spreads. (And
> yes I would be willing to write the extra "gotcha" text for debugger
> and IRB - who do I speak to about that?)

#   irb.rb - intaractive ruby
#   	$Release Version: 0.7.3 $
#   	$Revision: 1.2 $
#   	$Date: 2002/11/19 02:00:18 $
#   	by Keiju ISHITSUKA(keiju(AT)ishitsuka(DOT)com)

FreeRide (impressive list btw, most of whom probably just read this):
http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DeveloperList

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)