From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-08-12T13:44:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19571] Re: /.ed again

In article <200108120000.f7C00aZ20937@sii.linuxsweden.nu>,
Joel Wilsson  <siigron@sii.linuxsweden.nu> wrote:
>Interesting (and pleasing) to see that the comments
>this time aren't all "we don't need Ruby, we already
>have Python", but instead "wow, looks cool".
>

I'm not sure if we're looking at the same comments - or maybe it's just 
that I'm  looking a few hours later.  Most comments seem to be running in 
the "We don't need no more stink'in languages" vein.

Not the that developerworks article was bad, but it would have been good 
if they could have waited to post this to /. after all 4 of the 
installments had been published on developerworks - this first installment 
doesn't introduce any distinguishing Ruby features that most of us like 
about the language.

At any rate, it does seem that somebody over at /. has a warm spot in 
their heart toward Ruby.  It also seems that whenever one of these 
articles appears on /. that we get a few more curious posters here in the 
newsgroup - which is a good thing.  I think that in general, if somebody 
becomes curious enough to spend five or ten minutes time to research Ruby 
they tend to like what they see.

Phil