From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T11:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

Joey Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:36:31 +0900, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> 
> ||| We've all heard this: "Ruby is great, but it doesn't have the
> ||| equivalent of CPAN."
> 
> I've been using Ruby since 2000 (I think) and I considered abandoning it
> after reading Bruce Eckels make that exact point, but then I thought about
> it and decided to stick with it.

I was sitting across the table from Bruce last week (while Andy was 
belly dancing, but that's another story) and mentioned that article. He 
said he was planning on withdrawing it. That might have been second 
thoughts, or I might have been leaning forward somewhat too agressively 
(or it might be that the belly dancing was just too scary).

It would be very nice if Ruby could grow to have a sufficient number of 
libraries, and if those libraries worked synergistically together. Think 
how wonderful it would be to have something that was both powerful and 
concise.


Dave