From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2006-12-15T11:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: FYI - Ruby related article/blog on Reddit front page

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* dblack@wobblini.net (dblack@wobblini.net) wrote:
> Hi --
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> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Paul Duncan wrote:
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> >* dblack@wobblini.net (dblack@wobblini.net) wrote:
> >>Hi --
> >>
> >>On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jason Roelofs wrote:
> >[snipped]
> >>Ruby is a professional tool, and has been for years.  The 23
> >>(twenty-three) in-print Ruby books that Maki brought to show us at
> >>RubyConf 2002 in Seattle were, I think, not specifically written for
> >>non-professionals.
> >
> >Pictures of the oft-fabled RubyConf 2002 pile o' Japanese Ruby books
> >are available in glorious 2.1 megapixel technicolor at the following
> >URLs:
> >
> >   http://paulduncan.org/gallery/200211-rubyconf/?im=3Ddscf0191.jpg
> >   http://paulduncan.org/gallery/200211-rubyconf/?im=3Ddscf0192.jpg
> >   http://paulduncan.org/gallery/200211-rubyconf/?im=3Ddscf0193.jpg
> >   http://paulduncan.org/gallery/200211-rubyconf/?im=3Ddscf0194.jpg
> >   http://paulduncan.org/gallery/200211-rubyconf/?im=3Ddscf0195.jpg
> >   http://paulduncan.org/gallery/200211-rubyconf/?im=3Ddscf0196.jpg
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> Thanks for posting those -- always a pleasure to see them again :-)

No problemo!

> It was such a watershed moment, I think, for many of us.  It brought
> home the fact that we were Ruby newcomers, not early adopters.  I
> found it so exciting.

Yeah, we were pretty suprised.  There's even a picture (dscf0195.jpg, I
believe) of our amazedness, assuming that's actually a word and that
it's possible to capture that sort of thing.

It's awfully difficult to be smug and clever when your standing in front
of a desk full of books about the "new" programming language you've just
discovered.

All those books and nary a MVC web framework in sight!  Makes me wonder
what the next four years has in store for the Ruby community...

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