From: Matt Lawrence Date: 2004-05-07T04:57:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Promoting Ruby [was [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?] On Fri, 7 May 2004, Curt Hibbs wrote: > That is why I changed the subject. What this new topic is about promoting > Ruby to those who are *not* in the choir. All of us in the choir would like > to be able to use Ruby for our daily paying work. Some people are better > than others at producing convincing material to promote the use of Ruby to > the decision-makers. This is where a collective effort can really pay off. > > I want to address the practical aspects of getting Ruby more widely adopted > in the workplace. I don't expect this to be easy or fast -- but you've got > to start somewhere. I agree. Here's what I see: Ruby, the language, is wonderful Ruby, the environment, needs work on both the available libraries and their associated documentation. I'm a systems admin, not a brilliant programmer, so things that may seem intuitively obvious to y'all are seriously confusing to me. Ruby, the distribution, needs more binary packages available. I have over 150 AIX systems that I would love to install Ruby on, but I know very little about how to create a .bff (aka "installp" format) package. And, unfortunately, not a lot of time to mess with it. IBM now distributes CDs of Open Source software along with their AIX install CDs. Getting Ruby onto those would be fantastic! -- Matt The American Non-Sequiteur Society: We may not make sense, but we do like pizza.