From: "Mauricio Fernández" Date: 2003-07-12T01:06:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:02:53AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:22:57 +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > >�I do hope the street_cred bit is true. It's my > >�perception that Ruby is gaining in popularity, > >�but someone told me a few days ago that Ruby > >�was "dead in the water." I raised my eyebrow > >�and expressed the opposite opinion, of course. > > I have been through a series of interviews recently -- people who >have finally gotten around to reading _The Pragmatic Programmer_ -- >and have had my Rubyist status received positively. It's a pity the PragProgs were enlightened _after_ writing that book: there's no reference to Ruby on it IIRC (I don't know how to do 'grep' on a dead-tree medium :-P) -- _ _ | |__ __ _| |_ ___ _ __ ___ __ _ _ __ | '_ \ / _` | __/ __| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ | |_) | (_| | |_\__ \ | | | | | (_| | | | | |_.__/ \__,_|\__|___/_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable) batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com Beeping is cute, if you are in the office ;) -- Alan Cox