--- Conrad Schneiker and David Alan Black wrote:
> 
> # I know this is off-topic, though perhaps it's on-topic in a meta-topic
> # kind of way....
> 
> It most certainly is (at least now :-) on-topic: 
> 
>     The more rapid emergence of Ruby as the world's predominate
>     programming language...

Good to be optimistic but remember that vile stuff like ASP and EJB rule the
roost, and that Perl, "the language of hacks", is still written in secret in my
industy.

>     practical understanding of the sorts of powerfully useful roles
>     that Ruby/XML (which already exists), Ruby/SGML, and Ruby/HTML 

Ruby/ASCII ??

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John van Vlaanderen

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