From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T11:37:33+09:00
Subject: Re: web examples

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:00:29AM +0900, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> Hi Faruq,
> 
> You seem to be one of the rare people who heard about Ruby before
> Rails, instead of the other way around. But "Ruby on Rails"

I'm not so sure it's all that rare . . . it probably just isn't very
obvious when someone hears of Ruby first because it doesn't trigger your
"Oh, another person who heard about Rails!" reflex.  As such, those of
us who heard of Ruby before Rails are probably not as noticeable,
generally.

Then, of course, there's the simple fact that many who have heard of
Ruby first might not have thought anything of it until they also heard
of Rails, and got hooked that way.  This may make them look like they'd
heard of Rails first, even if they didn't.

I'm not sure why I'm commenting on this, really, except that I do tend
to wonder about the statistic incidence of this sort of thing sometimes.
I tend to find such social phenomena fascinating sometimes.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

"Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts." - Paul Graham