From: Alex Combas Date: 2006-12-15T08:11:05+09:00 Subject: Re: FYI - Ruby related article/blog on Reddit front page ------=_Part_159725_25246863.1166137861193 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi David, On 12/14/06, dblack@wobblini.net wrote: > > It's important to examine all the issues surrounding the interpreter, > but we needn't rewrite the history of the language. Whatever eval.c > and parse.y do or do not look like, Ruby has been used by professional > programmers for serious purposes for quite a while. And, I might add, > by non-professionals, and non-professionally by professionals, and > just about every other permutation. That's always been one of the > coolest things about Ruby, to me. > > > The future of Ruby is bright! > > So is its past -- and present :-) Happily, it's not a zero-sum game: > JRuby and Rubinius and YARV can be great, and Ruby from 1993 to now > can *also* be great. > > I agree with you on this but I think there has been a little confusion so I just finished writing http://www.noodlejunkie.com/articles/2006/12/14/ruby-is-rotting-part-deux Hopefully this clears things up. -- Best regards, http://noodlejunkie.com/ ------=_Part_159725_25246863.1166137861193--