From: Dave Rose <bitdoger2@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T02:25:40+09:00
Subject: Re: bad for Ruby in RUBY

Jake Cutter wrote:
> On 8/24/06, Dave Rose <bitdoger2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ruby)....Remember we are competing with the Warm Safe Java womb ...i
>> don't recall EVER that JAVA in it's formative year being a hackers
>> game....
> 
> 
> Um....ok.
> 
> I guess that's why C and Perl never made it big...
> 
> Jake

...we are competing for mindshare ... and C & Perl had different 
competing environments... they're nich weren't mature with other 
alternatives having bigger mindshares... C was an ATT freeware given to 
Academics... and Perl was Unix/Linx world back then when most of these 
weren't in biz critical missions....

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