From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-05-26T12:44:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15743] Re: Wow! (impressed newbie)

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:15731] Re: Wow! (impressed newbie)

> >I imagine that most of you know this already.  I really just wanted to
ask
> >where the greatest needs were in terms of language development with Ruby.
Do
> >the greatest needs like with module extensions?  The language itself?
> >Documentation?  Advocacy?
> >
>
> IMO the list greatest needs right now would be:
>
> 1) Extension modules
> 2) Infrastructure (improvement of RAA, making it perhaps more CPAN-like,
> maybe even better)
> 3) Documentation
> [These first three are all pretty equal in importance, I think]
> 4) Publicity (Instead of Advocacy, a term that has gotten a bad name)

That's an excellent list, Phil. I concur wholeheartedly.

> Anybody else got anything else to add...

All I would add is

3.5 More/better development tools. (Ruby browser, IDE, ...)


Hal