From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-06-21T20:13:23+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03586] Re: How did the recent wave of Ruby newcome	rs discover it?

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 07:31:30PM -0500, Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> > I'm interested in finding out how all the people who 
> recently (and not so
> > recently) learned about Ruby first found out about it.
> 

Kevin:
> I think I first heard about it on memepool.com back in February.
> 
> (See the fifth story down at http://www.memepool.com/Date/92/ for
> the blurb.)

Make it two.

Actually at that time I was going through
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/
trying to look what was there and to find good new language to learn. I had
managed to get me in the mindstate I was ready to learn a language, if there
was something meaningful reasons to do so. I found many, many interesting
languages, but before I managed to process my list and pick up one, I
accidentally ended up to memepool.

After this quite delicious hit with new language, I didn't have to prune my
candidate language tree. I've also been at memepool every now and then, and
it seems Ruby link wasn't just a rare gem. *Hint* :).

	- Aleksi