From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T21:12:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Thursday 16 January 2003 03:47 am, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
>
> anyway, my point being that i don' think Ruby gets the attention it deserves
> here in the states, simply because Rubyists tend to be too "enlightened" to
> advocate their language over others. in other words, we're too nice.

Fair point
>
> now i agree with you. without a doubt. but if we want Ruby to become a widely
> used language then it needs to be "marketed", so to speak. and that means
> telling people why it is better than other languages. and it is. you know it
> and i know it. and we need to inform others of that.

I think a "killer app" (an expression I dislike) would help too, of
course :-)
>
> i mean really, telling people you like Ruby, but hey, Perl is just as
> powerful, and Python really can do all that OO stuff, isn't going to perk too

But we can turn this around, and show respect for heritage:
It has the familiarity for Unix users and Perlists of regexp
operators and implicit operations on $_ if you want that,, the
OO benefits that Python has, of a clean syntax (even OO for regexps if
you want that), , with a simplified but powerful inheritance model,
the unit testing facilities of java, ..., ... all in the one language.

> much attention or win too many converts. and that's really ashame, becasue
> Ruby really is an amazing language, and it would be nice if a lot more people
> were developing for it.

Agreed
>
> --
> tom sawyer, aka transami
> transami@transami.net
>
        Hugh