From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T15:10:25+09:00
Subject: Re: A Rubyist's Dream

From: "David Sletten" <david@slytobias.com>
> Ghislain MARY wrote:
> 
> >>Do you think it is any coincidence that Onigurama (Ruby's new Regexp
> >>engine) translates as "ghost car"?
> > 
> > 
> > Isn't it Oniguruma instead? I haven't heard about it yet but that sounds 
> > better to me ;)
> > 
> > Ghislain
> > 
> > 
> "Oni" means demon/fiend/ogre (Also the player who's "it" in a game of tag)
> "Kuruma" means car. This becomes "guruma" in the compound "Oniguruma".

Since http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/36756
I've thought it was "Demon Wheel"...

I hope so, I really love that name ... :)   I was writing
a regex engine at the time (with some banal working title
like ReflEx).

When I heard the name Demon Wheel, it instantly resonated
with me as so perfectly encompassing (to borrow a friend's
words out-of-context) the "madness and majesty, ghastliness
and indescribable beauty" of both the internals, and the
raw romantic power of an engine like that.


=D


Anyway  . . . 


Happy Rubying,

Bill