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On 1/7/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There was one case I remember where a Success Stories page really got
> me interested in something:
>
> The Franz Lisp success stories, including the Crash Bandicoot series
> of games (and the Jak & Daxter series, but I've never played those, so
> it struck me less), modified immediately my view of Lisp from 'a
> language only applicable for data structure crunching' (i.e. almost no
> communication with the "outside world" of other software on the
> computer/net) to 'a dynamic language on par with C in performance with
> much higher abstraction that can be used for graphical things, even 3d
> computer games'.
>
> So yes, Success Stories pages do have use.
>
> But I don't think the correct attitude of such a page is to show that
> "here, this was used where money was involved, so don't be afraid to
> put yours behind it". but to show scales and domains of projects that
> the language was a factor in making possible that the average reader
> possibly thought are impossible with it.
>

In that case, could the page be renamed to 'Who uses Ruby?'. The Python
success stories page is basically that - a huge list of all the various
applications that have been found for Python.

'Success stories' just sounds so... startup-ish.

Mushfeq.

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