From: Peter Suk <peter.kwangjun.suk@...>
Date: 2005-04-23T05:33:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] the Ruby Programming Shop

On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

> On 04/22/2005 08:16 PM, pat eyler wrote:
>>    http://therps.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
>
> Huh? On a rubyforge site what wiki.pl (perl) is for?

Would we be glad if some Perl-folks decided to use instiki?  Or would 
we use this fact as ammunition in our holy language war?  Tools work.  
Use them or not.  Hope people do the same for the tools we build.

>> and on our mailing list:
>>      http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/therps-discuss/
>
> Both the mailing-list archiver 'pipermail' and mailing-list manager 
> 'mailman' are python powered here too; but why?

Language jingoism is not productive, IMHO.  Tools work.  Use them or 
not.  I'd want someone to use Ruby or Smalltalk, even if they were 
running a project in Java/C/C#/Lisp/Perl.  I note that there is a vmlm 
mailing list manager written in Ruby.  (Google: Ruby Mailing List 
manager)  Perhaps someone who is concerned should take a look, dust it 
off, and give it a try.  Or, if you want to write something better, you 
are welcome!  If you are not that concerned, and the list works, why 
worry?

--Peter


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