From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-03-23T08:47:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows version of Ruby (proposals)

On 3/22/02 3:19 PM, "Carl Parrish" <cparrish@cox.net> wrote:

Ron wrote:
>> I think Ruby is great, and I think that like it or not, Windows has
>> the bulk of the market, and will have for some time, and I'd like to
>> see Ruby succeed grandly. I'd like to see it replace Perl and Python
>> as the language of choice for scripting, and for "real" programming,
>> whatever that is.
>> 
> 
> Ron, 
> I'd like to echo someone elses comment that while most *users* are using
> Windows I don't think most *developers* are.

You may be right, Carl. I personally  don't use Windows any more since its
killer app, Minesweeper, was ported to Mac OS X. Nevertheless, Id like to
know there was a really good Ruby for Windows. I like my code to be portable
even when I don't foresee porting it. The discipline of writing portably is
good for me.
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