ActiveState is holding a contest to determine ‘your favorite programmer’
(awards to be given at OSCON). However, they have no option for choosing
Ruby developers at their voting page. Perhaps this is an oversight which
could be rectified if brought to their attention.
(Their announcement is at:
http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press1052761374.html
)
-pate
Pat Eyler
Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin
the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek
http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org
Hi –
ActiveState is holding a contest to determine ‘your favorite programmer’
(awards to be given at OSCON). However, they have no option for choosing
Ruby developers at their voting page. Perhaps this is an oversight which
could be rectified if brought to their attention.
They say that “Awards will be presented in each of ActiveState’s key
technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.” I don’t think Ruby
(at the moment) belongs on that list, does it? (I mean based on what
ActiveState does, not based on merit obviously 
On the other hand, they say that Ruby is not one of their key technologies
because they don’t hear enough about it in the marketplace. Perhaps this
is a good opportunity to speak up and let them hear about it. (Or, I
could just be tilting at windmills again.)
-pate
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On Wed, 14 May 2003 dblack@superlink.net wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
David
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David Alan Black
home: dblack@superlink.net
work: blackdav@shu.edu
Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav
Hi –
Hi –
ActiveState is holding a contest to determine ‘your favorite programmer’
(awards to be given at OSCON). However, they have no option for choosing
Ruby developers at their voting page. Perhaps this is an oversight which
could be rectified if brought to their attention.
They say that “Awards will be presented in each of ActiveState’s key
technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.” I don’t think Ruby
(at the moment) belongs on that list, does it? (I mean based on what
ActiveState does, not based on merit obviously
On the other hand, they say that Ruby is not one of their key technologies
because they don’t hear enough about it in the marketplace. Perhaps this
is a good opportunity to speak up and let them hear about it. (Or, I
could just be tilting at windmills again.)
I spoke to Gurusamy Sarathy of ActiveState at Linux Expo in New York
recently about Ruby, and he said that the main obstacle to their
getting involved with Ruby is [dare I say this and risk starting a
thead? :] licensing, specifically of the regular expression engine.
I’m afraid I don’t know any more about it, but there may be people who
do, so over to them
David
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2003 dblack@superlink.net wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
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David Alan Black
home: dblack@superlink.net
work: blackdav@shu.edu
Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav
In article Pine.LNX.4.44.0305131458230.9307-100000@candle.superlink.net,
···
dblack@superlink.net wrote:
Hi –
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2003 dblack@superlink.net wrote:
Hi –
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Pat Eyler wrote:
ActiveState is holding a contest to determine ‘your favorite programmer’
(awards to be given at OSCON). However, they have no option for choosing
Ruby developers at their voting page. Perhaps this is an oversight which
could be rectified if brought to their attention.
They say that “Awards will be presented in each of ActiveState’s key
technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.” I don’t think Ruby
(at the moment) belongs on that list, does it? (I mean based on what
ActiveState does, not based on merit obviously
On the other hand, they say that Ruby is not one of their key technologies
because they don’t hear enough about it in the marketplace. Perhaps this
is a good opportunity to speak up and let them hear about it. (Or, I
could just be tilting at windmills again.)
I spoke to Gurusamy Sarathy of ActiveState at Linux Expo in New York
recently about Ruby, and he said that the main obstacle to their
getting involved with Ruby is [dare I say this and risk starting a
thead? :] licensing, specifically of the regular expression engine.
Isn’t that why a new regex engine is being written - apparently the old
one was GPL and they want a more BSD-like license. Though, I really don’t
understand what the problem with GPL was in this context…
Phil
Isn't that why a new regex engine is being written - apparently the old
one was GPL and they want a more BSD-like license. Though, I really don't
understand what the problem with GPL was in this context...
The problem is that they have written there own debugger (for the
language and for there regexpr tool). I can understand that they don't
want to see there code also becoming GPL'ed.
But regex.c is LGPL so it should be less “infectious” than GPL,
shouldn’t it?
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:07:57AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
Isn’t that why a new regex engine is being written - apparently the old
one was GPL and they want a more BSD-like license. Though, I really don’t
understand what the problem with GPL was in this context…
The problem is that they have written there own debugger (for the
language and for there regexpr tool). I can understand that they don’t
want to see there code also becoming GPL’ed.
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