From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-01-26T10:52:08+09:00
Subject: Ruby at Apple?

I've had a couple of situations recently where I've been talking to 
someone about Ruby's adoption in the US:
1) I'm talking to a publisher about a Ruby title and the publisher 
(understandably) is wary about doing another Ruby book right now (and this 
wouldn't be a general-purpose title).
2) I was talking to a owner of a local training company that seems to be 
open to the idea of doing a Ruby class, but again, he's not sure if it 
makes sense economically right now.  He has a general sense that Ruby is 
making inroads, but he wants more concrete data...

Now in both cases the most tangable data point I could come up with was 
that Ruby is included in MacOSX 10.2 (jaguar) - both of them seemed to be 
impressed by this factoid - but of course they still want more info.

Several months back (maybe a year or so ago now) there were some postings 
here about how Apple is interested in Ruby as a potential alternative to 
AppleScript for their 'standard' scripting language.  Can anyone provide 
an 'inside' look into what might be going on there?

Phil
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