Hello Dan,

Monday, February 2, 2004, 6:00:37 AM, you wrote:

DD> Okay, we'd like to use Ruby at work. For this, Ruby needs
DD> critical mass.

DD> Threads like this don't really help Ruby gain mass. What
DD> should we do? I don't think an aggressive Ruby marketing
DD> campaign is in order, unless someone wants to spend lots
DD> of money.

DD> What can the Ruby community really do except continue to
DD> write Ruby code?  RubyForge says it hosts 152 projects.
DD> As people write more Ruby code, more people will come and
DD> write more Ruby code and so on.  Ruby may gain critical
DD> mass in the future. It just isn't there yet.

Whats about cooperation instead of competition in the ruby world ?
The raa-installer vs. ruby-gems is one of the places where energy is
spend that could be used better. I also see lots of libraries in
competition to each other but not in competition to some python/perl
libraries, simply because they are to weak to be a competitor.

If ruby is so a superior OO language, why is it so complicated to
extend/change an already existing library ?

The Ruby-Gem thread was one of the reasons why i started looking at
the statistics on sourceforge.

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Best regards,
 Lothar                            mailto:mailinglists / scriptolutions.com