From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T13:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: About last night ...

Benjamin Reed wrote:
> 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.
Yeah ... that's the Lisp model. Fifty years old, IIRC, Lisp is. Lisp was 
a "very big deal" at one point in the early to mid 1970s -- Lisp 
machines and acres of VAXes and of course the Connection Machine. Lisp 
survived the Lisp machine bubble burst.