From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T06:11:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Don't let this happen to Ruby, pleeeeease?


On Feb 20, 2006, at 6:59, James Britt wrote:

> To be fair, though, most people have little trouble getting Ruby 
> installed and running.

I know. I cannot believe my setups differ in some fundamental manner 
from many other people, so why I suffer installer problems (always 
different) remains something of a mystery to me. Sigh. I can't be 
*that* stupid . . .

> It isn't that people are busy denying that some people still have 
> problems, it's that people are just *busy*, period.

Er, my original post was prompted by a post that I found hard to 
interpret as anything other than denying or attempting to excuse some 
of the 'opportunities' still available to newbies coming to Ruby.

Happily, such attitudes are unquestionably a small minority.

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