From: David Garamond Date: 2004-05-07T03:37:23+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved? Ara.T.Howard wrote: > this makes me think - there is a lot of presentaion material out there > praising ruby (matz's slides, pragmatic programmer stuff, personal > presentations). what about pooling resources and putting together something > __really__ slick and professional and putting it up on ruby-lang for people to > use? postgresql is attempting to do this... seems like a good idea. if only > we could distill _why's book... ;-) That's a great thing to do. But actually what I long for is a killer app for us to brag, a poster child for Ruby greatness, a popular app that forces one to install Ruby. I wonder why nothing has really surfaced so far [with as great success as with the other languages]. Python has Mailman, Zope (and Plone), Ensim (but I think recent versions of Ensim is written in Java), Chandler. PHP also has lots (PHPNuke, phpBB, the various popular webmail, etc). Perl has Webmin, SQL-Ledger, majordomo... But where are the Ruby programs? I know Ruby are younger than many other popular languages, but things like Zope and Mailman has been started years ago... -- dave