From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-09-18T22:22:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21314] Re: PC Magazine

In article <g8up7.24064$5A3.7629082@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com>,
Ryan Tarpine  <rtarpine@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In the October issue of PC Magazine, in his Inside Track column John C. 
>Dvorak writes:
>
>Hot Language Dept.:  If you want to witness an interesting groundswell of 
>adoption that has been rivaled only by the self-publicating publicity of 
>Java a few years ago, look no further than an emerging object-oriented 
>scripting language called Ruby.  Developed in Japan, this language is as 
>easy to learn as old-fashioned BASIC and is expected to challenge PERL as 
>the language of choice for programming servers to do cool things.
>...Info about O'Reilly's book...
>Start with www.ruby-lang.org.  Described by some as a cross between 
>Smalltalk and C++, Ruby has IBMers jumping on the bandwagon -- especially 
>the Linux mavens.  Oh, and the best part:  It's free.
>
>I've heard comments recently that we should not try to gain too much 
>publicity since the language is still young.  Any comments on the positives 
>and/or negatives of such an exposure as this?

I think this is excellent publicity (well, I must admit that the 
reference to BASIC isn't all that flattering, but I understand what he 
meant).  Ruby isn't that 'young' anymore it certainly deserves the 
publicity that it's getting - and more publicity 
would be great.  I believe that Ruby can stand up to the scrutiny that 
more noteriety would bring.

Phil