From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-02-02T00:14:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Python 25 times as popular as Ruby !? Hello Dan, Sunday, February 1, 2004, 8:53:21 AM, you wrote: DD> But why should it matter if Ruby is more known than Python or Java or C DD> or whatever? It's simple. The evolution depends on the size of the active community. I don't mean students who pick it up for a course, or people writting there first script, but people using it in a professional (commerical) environment. You can't deny that there is a correlation between this and the quality of the libraries (maybe not the core) and found/fixed bugs. -- Best regards, Lothar mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com