From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-01-17T02:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 12:05, gabriele renzi wrote:
> Well, you need apps. We don't have applications. If you look at RAA or
> RubyForge you may see lots of frameworks, libraries, but little apps.

Yup, I've noticed that too... but I think that's starting to slowly
change.  Witness, if you will:

http://tourneybot.rubyforge.org/
http://ruby-doom.rubyforge.org/
http://rubygo.rubyforge.org/

These applications could have been written in any language, but were
done in Ruby... because it's an excellent language for the job.  

> Could you name 5 applications written in ruby and known to
> non-rubyists? Could you do the same with other languages?

Mailman and ViewCVS were written in Python... no reason why they
couldn't have been done in Ruby, but someone did them in Python first...

Yours,

Tom