Hi David,

> >    Is this the same Dave hanging out on Ruby NG and helping them so much
?
>
> actually, it is not. the Dave Thomas on the Ruby list is "Pragmatic Dave",
> co-author (with Andrew Hunt) of The Pragmatic Programmer and Programming
> Ruby. not to be confused with "Big Dave" Thomas who is helping with the
> Squeak Foundation (also called "OTI Dave" as he was the founder of OTI,
the
> company that brought us VisualAge for Smalltalk and VisualAge for Java.)
>

    Thanks for your clarification. Now I know.

> neither of whom should be confused with Dave Thomas, the founder of
Wendy's
> fast food restaurants. ;)

    BTW, I heard that he just passed away very recently. Wonder if it's
true.


    PhiHo.