From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2004-03-03T21:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubyx OS (Ruby oriented linux distro)

On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 06:06, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>
> Sadly, it got the typical negative response that non Perl/Python scripting
> always seems to get on slashdot.

There are some really funny responses though! The guy who said it would be in 
his top 20 picks was hilarious (even if he was listing heavily to port...) 
And more importantly, the apache server at www.rubyx.org has been red hot 
ever since :)

>
> I was particularly amazed that one reply complained (admittedly, in a
> reasonably inoffensive way) about the Ruby focus of the distribution. I
> guess if you'd just called it the Gphrozggen distribution and it just
> happened to make a lot of use of Ruby, all the slashdotters would have been
> happy :-).

Yes, my point that ruby enabled me to write a tiny script which does 
everything got rather lost in the noise. C'est la vie.

>
> I really do despair at all those people who seem to be focused on
> Perl/Python and then consider it ridiculous that someone could be focused
> on "yet another scripting language".
>

Each to his own. Feel reassured that you can write elegant, maintainable code 
in a versatile language, while they immitate Golum [Hand's over ears..."Not 
listening.."]. Which puts you at a considerable advantage!