Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: reanimate comp.lang.ruby [was: Learn to Program, by Chris Pine] Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:51:03 +0200 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <92297dd8-a7c1-4dcc-b7ea-95be8cc72fea@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: individual.net PNuYChd2/L3IV+bDD+3wawX/uUMbddH9lKKThAi+71/k6E/qg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:80lcbjLqB+fXtpjEU05o9hQKaKk= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.ruby:7029 On 29.09.2014 13:11, Michael Uplawski wrote: > I am following the group. If other readers deem it worth the effort, > should there be attempts to reanimate it, to arouse discussions on > interesting ruby-topics, or rather not? I think double posting is not exactly the right way to increase traffic=20 here. :-) > An example would force me or somebody else to change the topic once > again; instead I provide you with the motives for my intervention: I am= > losing my programming skills because there aren't enough people around > who understand the least about object oriented programming and because > most of my own daily activities do no longer touch Informatics. Oh, how did that come about? Did you change industries or picked a=20 career path into management? > A necessity for new =E2=80=9Ccode=E2=80=9D must artificially be declare= d by myself and > nothing ensures that the result is worth the trouble. A-thousand > downloads on rubygems.org or one per week on sourceforge is not really > informative. Not sure what the mention of download figures has to do with the rest of = your posting. I myself managed to write a bit of Ruby code by=20 volunteering to write a Wiki statistics calculator for a favorite portal = of mine. And I was even able to squeeze in some ERB template usage. ;-) > Now even some deliberately created dispute in the newsgroup for my > favorite programming language will be welcome... Against! ;-) Kind regards robert