From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-04-10T03:51:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Instiki 0.10.0 - On The Rails

On 4/9/05, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> Because it confuses popularity with quality.
> Oh, gosh! I would never ever dare to propose a quality pissing
> context - believe me :)
> 
> Popularity (number of users), however, is important to me, because
> I want to help make Ruby a mainstream technology. Instiki success
> in that department tells us something.

I'm not sure that it does, really. Don't get me wrong -- I don't
begrudge Instiki's success in whatever measure is being used -- but
I'm not sure that Instiki is sufficiently non-techy enough to really
qualify as something that *drives* the use of Ruby by the end user.

I think that application has yet to be written.

-austin
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