From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2002-02-10T07:25:20+09:00
Subject: RE: Google programming contest....

> I agree it could be good publicity for Ruby, but only if Ruby were
> somehow acknowledged.  The thing to do would be to develop a killer idea
> in Ruby, put a demonstration up online, but then withhold the source and
> let google know that it would be held until they allowed Ruby or
> whatever other language you developed it in.  A more ruthless soul might
> also give the source to an alternative search engine if your language
> was not at least allowed, since if your idea is valuable enough they
> could port it to whatever they wanted later on.

Might be fun to see what sort of program wins, then implenment it in Ruby
in about half the lines of code.  Then tell Google, "Gee, perhaps if you had
*allowed* Ruby ..."


James