From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2001-07-12T20:08:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17709] Re: Ruby on Slashdot

And there are toher languages, which seem to have had similar problems.

Like LISP - I language _very_ ahead of it's time, but since there are a lot
of different implementations, people seem to be afraid to use it.

On the other hand, C (and C++, too) and it's standard library  is standardized,
and those are two _very_ sucessfuly languages..

mfg, phlo