From: Paul Prescod <paulp@...>
Date: 2001-07-13T05:28:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17751] Re: Ruby on Slashdot

I think that if Ruby wants corporate "approval", a formal standard is an
expensive route and not really necessarily effective. Where is the
formal standard for Visual Basic? How has the formal standard for Scheme
or Algol helped it to become a mainstream language?

There are a lot of incremental efforts with more bang for buck:

 * documentation
 * more database support
 * XML support
 * free threading
 * interoperability with COM, CORBA, SOAP, JVM, .NET, ...

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