From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T12:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby getting in the lead

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 4/18/05, baalbek <rcs@bgoark.no> wrote:
> 
>>Check out this excellent book (I highly recommend it):
>>
>>"Code Generation in Action" ( http://www.manning.com/herrington/ )
>>
>>And what's more interesting, is that the author, after deliberating on
>>various alternatives (Perl, Java, Python, etc), chose Ruby as the
>>language for code generation.
>>
>>Looks like Ruby is slowly but surely bubbling up to the top!
> 
> 
> Funnily, I reviewed this for the author two years ago ;) 

My understanding is that the publisher did not want him to use Ruby (too 
unknown), but he refused to write the book if he couldn't use Ruby.

Curt