From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-11-07T04:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:05:19AM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> i simply cannot see how separting real questions (like how the hell
> do i do this before tomorrow?!?!?!) from chit-chat (serious and
> otherwise) could harm the community.  there are those who claim that
> a web page is better for that and that it is not the job for
> ruby-talk, 

I suppose you're referring to the proposal I made.  In that case
please read it again, because...

> but that's not, imo, reality : people DO fire off urgent questions
> to ruby-talk, people DO fire off easy, duplicated, questions to
> ruby-talk...  who cares?  it's not a hard problem to solve, or at
> least lessen...  in fact, i would think that a ruby-beginners group
> could be VERY usefull for doing ruby design, after all - if a
> question is asked 500 times, then perhaps something could be made
> more intuitive, or a web page containing the answer could be
> created.  

...you're just restating it. :-)

> without the statistics though, how does one know what ARE frequently
> asked questions.

Just ask people who've been year for a year or so.


Massimiliano