On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Conrad Schneiker wrote:

> Two words for :-) thought on this topic:
>
>     (1) Slashdot
>     (2) ActiveState
>
> WRT (1), what ever happened to that forthcoming book review?
>
> WRT (2), any Ruby guru making plans to move to Vancouver?

http://www.linux.com/development/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=12107 says

 [...]

 Linux.com: What made ActiveState look into Python?

 Dick Hardt: We were looking at where else we could expand. Python was
 growing, and we're looking all the other open-source programming
 languages, so we hope to be able to - at some point - make announcements
 around both Tcl and PHP, and Ruby.

 [...]

Mike

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