On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com> wrote: > I will indeed! Just preparing ahead of time for the hype machine to go > into overdrive. Regardless of initial speed, there's an incredibly > long tail to any Ruby implementation, and new ones won't be useful > until months or years after they're first released.
It was ever thus. People seem to have this amazing cognitive bias for the behaviour of a paper tiger over the real thing. I've sometimes wondered if it's not a side-effect of the golden-path thinking that many (most?) developers seem to get taught. Ben, quite unable to come up with a decent joke about tigers and long tails at short notice. _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
