From: Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Date: 1998-12-02T16:34:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-list:11190] Re: English List

Hello Ozawa,

On  2 Dec, ozawa@aisoft.co.jp wrote:
> In article <199812020409.NAA04375@picachu.netlab.co.jp>,
> 	matz@netlab.co.jp (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
> 
> matz>    ruby-talk?
> matz>    ruby-english?   (I don't like this one)
> matz>    ruby-whatever?
> 
> IMHO, ruby-talk sounds good.
> 

not bad! But talk seems a little bit like go to a party and have a talk,
eh? Nothing against that... only give me the impression of de.talk.jokes
:-))

> matz> Then, I can open the list at a touch.
> matz> # Names, again... :-)
> 

What's about:
   ruby-int(ernational)?
   ruby-proj(ect)?
   ruby-lang(uage)?

> As Dr. Knuth also mentions it in the first chapter of his "TeXbook",
> the name of the game is the most important aspect.
> 

Oh yeah! Although being a German, I don't like to use German in my
programs. :-))

Not being a English-speaker since birth on, I ever have to search for
the right name. And sometimes finding the right name is more difficult
than write the whole prog :-((