From: Benjamin Reed <rangerrick@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T13:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: About last night ...

On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

> The scary thing about this is that such high-powered demands are often a
> bubble, which eventually bursts in a spectacular way. That's not
> something I think anyone wants to happen to Ruby, or even to Rails.

Well speaking as a recent convert (who finally subscribed to this list
a few days ago), it's clear that the Ruby community is mature enough
that even if the bubble should burst, there's still a core of
dedicated people who know what they're doing and love the technology,
regardless of the hype, and will do what they need to to satisfy their
own desires from the language without worrying about what other people
think.

I admit, I checked it out because of the hype, but I'm genuinely
liking what I'm seeing digging into the language and into Rails.  It's
the happy middle ground between the perl and Java (which I primarly
work in right now).  It's got *real* objects but still has the
richness of perl (and not so much of the craziness of it that can bite
you in the foot.)

I hope to be here for the long haul, not just because it's "hip."

Just my $0.02.