From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T01:35:01+09:00
Subject: Re: fed up with this newsgroup

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 12:24 pm, Glenn Parker wrote:
> Maybe enduring this particular growing pain is just another chapter in
> the process of language maturation.  

I think it is, or, to state it another way, one of the things that attracts me 
to Ruby is that the language and newsgroups are fairly young--there's not as 
many old-timer's that have used Ruby for 20 years, know all there is to know, 
are thoroughly bored by the repeat questions that come up, and say so or make 
it known somehow.

I guess I'm trying to say, it's a young and friendly group, and I feel I can 
sort of learn Ruby with the group (later than some, but not too late), rather 
than (in some more established language) be the ignorant apprentice among a 
group of sages that are no longer willing to welcome young apprentices.

So, I think it is a stage in the process of maturation, and being at the stage 
we are is a good thing--it will attract more people than some of the more 
mature languages.

Randy Kramer

> Other newsgroups (e.g. lisp and 
> python) have apparently graduated already.
>
> Those who actually respond to Ilias ought to start charging him for all
> the free consulting work, then maybe he would be motivated to engage his
> own brain and do some honest learning, instead of playing the
> intellectual greased pig.