From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T20:23:36+09:00
Subject: [Really very OT now]: Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

* Gawnsoft <xlucid@users.sourceforge.remove.this.antispam.net> [0554 16:54]:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004 03:58:47 +0900, Dick Davies
> <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote (more or less):
> 
> >* Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> [0509 18:09]:
> >> In article <c7aklt$8gs$1@news1.kornet.net>,
> >> Park Heesob <phasis68@kornet.net> wrote:
> >
> >> >http://bluebones.net/news/default.asp?action=view_story&story_id=81
> >
> >> He seems to imply that the Ruby results are tainted because people could 
> >> be saying that they love Ruby the gem.
> >
> >Or the band ('Paraffin' is probably on a p2p near you I expect).
> >
> >Wonder where Les Rankine is these days?
> 
> Dumfriesshire, as I recall.
> 
> There was a new Ruby album out within the last year or so.
> 
> I interviewed her a good few years back - when she was on the Paraffin
> tour, but the web-page for the interview is no longer with us.  :-(

I had a thing for chicks with blue hair and biker boots at the time, so I was
in heaven :) Are we still after a mascot? Beats a penguin :)

Big change from SilverFish, though.

Is this what brought you to the list then?

Now I think of it my first Leenux box back in the 90s was ruby.mine.nu,
and I think I probably heard of the language after googling for the band
(it certainly wasn't word of mouth anyway, none of the geeks I know ever 
used it).

See, if they'd been marketed as well as Pe[a]rl Jam, the history of scripting
languages might have been very different....

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