From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T03:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:37, David Garamond wrote:
> 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... ;-)
> 
> 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.

Another Python poster child example - BitTorrent.  

And I agree wholeheartedly.  It'll be a happy day when someone announces
the Ruby "take it to the next level" app...

Yours,

Tom