From: SuHi <manamist@...>
Date: 2000-01-17T22:51:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01155] Toward better English doc's. (Re:  Re: The value of while...)

Hi,

Conrad Schneiker wrote:

 |           Since I plan to submit my revised RFD (request for discussion)
 |for the formation of a comp.lang.ruby newsgroup later this month (which will
 |be posted to both comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.python) I am generally
 |interested in what things have either attracted or repelled previous Perl
 |users, so that I can make suitable modifications to the RFD, if any.

and Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

 |Maybe easy-to-understand expressive documents in BETTER English will
 |help reduce misunderstanding.

Would it be a clue??
(-; although of course I know this is an incomplete contribution)

[Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:51:19 +0900; #0000]
-- 
SuHi == SUGIHARA Hiroshi
manamist@white.diamond.ne.jp

************ a patch on Ruby FAQ ************
--- rubyfaq-1.html	Mon Sep 27 23:13:20 1999
+++ rubyfaq-1.html.20000116	Sun Jan 16 22:10:01 2000
@@ -29,4 +29,7 @@
 Ruby has adopted various good features from many languages, and
 became a different language from others.
+<br><br>
+Ruby is copyrighted but open-source free software
+by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> (call him matz hereafter).
 <br><br>
 The features of Ruby are as follows:
@@ -92,8 +95,13 @@
 <br><br>
 Since then, mail lists are established, web pages are formed.  Highly
 active discussion was held in the mail lists.  The oldest list
-ruby-list has 14789 messages until now.
+`ruby-list' messages has exceeded 20000 (on Jan 1 2000 ;-).
 <br><br>
-Ruby 1.0 was released in Dec. 1996, 1.1 in Aug. 1997, 1.2 (stable
-version) and 1.3 (development version) were released in Dec. 1998.
-</blockquote>
+Now the major version of Ruby is 1 (1.x.xx). In detail,
+</blockquote><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td>comments if any</td></tr>
+<tr><td>1.0</td><td>Dec. 1996</td><td></td></tr>
+<tr><td>1.1</td><td>Aug. 1997</td><td></td></tr>
+<tr><td>1.2, 1.3</td><td>Dec. 1998</td>
+    <td>1.2: stable, 1.3: development version</td></tr>
+<tr><td>1.4</td><td>Aug. 1999</td><td>stable version</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
@@ -149,8 +157,8 @@
 Ruby official Home Page is
 
-<code><a href="http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/jp/">
-http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/jp/</a></code>
+<code><a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/">
+http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/</a></code>
 (in Japanese) and
-<code><a href="http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/">
-http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/</a></code>
+<code><a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">
+http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/</a></code>
 (in English).
@@ -182,1 +190,1 @@
-See <a href="http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/">Ruby Home Page</a>.
+See <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">Ruby Home Page</a>.
@@ -238,7 +246,8 @@
 <h2><a name="ss1.10">1.10 
 Is there a Ruby book?
 </a></h2>
 
 
-A Ruby reference book by matz et al is to be published in the autumn of
-1999 (Japanese).
+The first Ruby reference book by Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz) and Keiju
+Ishitsuka (keiju) have finally been publishedi in October 1999
+(ISBN 4-7561-3254-5 from ASCII, written in Japanese).
@@ -286,1 +295,1 @@
-<html>
+</html>