From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-02-10T15:08:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby advocacy

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> one of the groups in our lab is looking into languages for a new project.
> they are considering python, ruby, perl, and a few others.  aside from the
> obvious ones (pickaxe, ruby way, www.ruby-lang.org, etc) are there any
> convincing resources people would reccomend as useful for convincing project
> manager types that ruby is _the_ way to go?  i've see quite a few slides and
> presentations over the years - but wonder which are most up to date and
> relevant, esp. ones people have personally found useful.

IIRC, one of the things that made Python hit the newstands big time was 
when it was 'acquired' by BeOpen and on their website they had a Success 
Stories with big names like Google, IBM, etc. and how they all use 
Python for biggish projects. The web page was kind of corporatish and 
formal and all that. After that, we began to see Linux Journal doing a 
cover + special edition on Python, magazine articles and interviews 
popping up everywhere, etc. Perhaps we can do the same for Ruby...

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dave