From: Robert Dober Date: 2007-07-21T06:57:57+09:00 Subject: Re: The average Ruby ML Contributor On 7/20/07, Lyle Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Sy Ali wrote: > > > What's that? You're collecting all of our information? > > There is an ongoing thread on the ruby-talk mailing list (subject > line "Taking the bull by its horns") where people are volunteering > all sorts of information about themselves, and Robert's report is > presumably based on that. If you contributed to that thread, then > yes, he has "collected" that information -- as have the numerous web > sites and search engines that mirror the contents of this mailing list. And furthermore there are no names, no addresses nothing which identifies a person, only average age, locations and computer languages. Please have a look at the report yourself. Sorry if I scared you, I had used a disclaimer explaining this before, it got somehow lost in this final post. Cheers Robert P.S. concerning the blood, no, not for me thanks, but donate once in a while anyway can save lives ;) R. -- I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby -- Kent Beck