From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2003-05-14T03:47:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveState Contest

On Wed, 14 May 2003 dblack@superlink.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
>
> > ActiveState is holding a contest to determine 'your favorite programmer'
> > (awards to be given at OSCON).  However, they have no option for choosing
> > Ruby developers at their voting page.  Perhaps this is an oversight which
> > could be rectified if brought to their attention.
>
> They say that "Awards will be presented in each of ActiveState's key
> technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT."  I don't think Ruby
> (at the moment) belongs on that list, does it?  (I mean based on what
> ActiveState does, not based on merit obviously :-)
>

On the other hand, they say that Ruby is not one of their key technologies
because they don't hear enough about it in the marketplace.  Perhaps this
is a good opportunity to speak up and let them hear about it.  (Or, I
could just be tilting at windmills again.)

-pate

>
> David
>
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