[E-Lang] language popularity

[Dan Moniz]

[snip]

>Perl and Python are of course pure open-source plays in that they have no
>proprietary implementations.  I am curious about current traffic rates on the
>newsgroups related to Ruby, another pure OS play. 
>

[snip]

Ruby has an active community around it, both in users and developers. 
I first heard about it a few years back from someone on the #perl IRC 
channel on EFNet (where I used to hang out), but didn't start really 
looking at it and getting interested until a few months ago.

The largest, most inclusive communications medium for Ruby users and 
developers right now is the ruby-talk mailing list 
<http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ml.html>. There's an archive of the list 
(powered by Ruby) at 
<http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml>. There's 
also significant Japanese language mailing lists (ruby-list, 
ruby-dev, ruby-ext, ruby-math) which I don't read, but many English 
speakers/writers/readers do, using Excite's Japanese translation 
service <http://www.excite.co.jp/world>.

There's a mail2news gateway for ruby-talk, which connects to 
comp.lang.ruby. It had intermittent troubles recently, but should be 
back up and fully operational.


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Dan Moniz <dnm@pobox.com> [http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/]