From: benjohn@...
Date: 2006-10-25T18:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there really an impending Ruby fracture???

> Well ... I've been home from RubyConf for a day now. I sort of expected
> someone would have spotted this and commented on it (here) by now, but
> they haven't. In any event, I came away from the conference with a
> completely different view of the state of Ruby than David Pollak
> apparently did.
>
> https://www.lostlake.org/blog/index.php?/archives/11-The-Impending-Ruby-Fracture.html

I wasn't there, but I've posted a comment to the blog in response to
enterprises not being important.

Summary - regardless of whether you want to get them involved, they're
definitely worth learning from. Enterprises are large groups of people,
and they want to use computers to help the people in them communicate
effectively - they want "joined up data". This is what I want from
computers too. I want to be able to play and program and do lovely
things, but I want to be able to share that: share my data and everyone
else's just as if it was sitting in my process, and make use of every
piece of data and code without a bump. I want global objects, and
enterprises are spending billions on solving that for me, which is nice.