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Tim Bray's Thoughts from THE FUTURE!

chromatic on 2006-12-02T03:13:02

As reported in Dynamic Language Limbo:

According to [Tim] Bray, Sun pursued the JRuby guys because the underlying (Ruby) technology is good and it has outstanding documentation, as well as a flagship Web framework in Rails.

Ruby has outstanding documentation? Hey Tim, as long as you're talking to us from the year 2016, can you share any stock tips or the final scores of any major sports upsets?

From the sigfile

Simon on 2006-12-02T16:50:18

"I would have more respect for Ruby if its docs were not in ALL YOUR BASE format." - Dennis Taylor

Re:From the sigfile

chromatic on 2006-12-02T19:45:12

Ruby has documentation? I thought ri existed to make info look usable.

Re:From the sigfile

djberg96 on 2006-12-03T19:25:10

I highly recommend fri (FastRI) over ri. It actually, you know, works. Plus, it's fast. :)

Re:From the sigfile

chromatic on 2006-12-03T23:22:04

Thanks! I heard about it the other day and have high hopes for it. I'm glad to hear another positive opinion.