From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-02-12T08:05:01-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01313] Re: Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

> Either way, how about a FAQ entry for this issue in the "1.Introduction"
> section of the FAQ? (And how about renaming "1.General questions" to
> "1.Introduction", since most of the "general questions" are actually pretty
> specific?).

That's a very good idea - we need to explain notation and so on
somewhere.

> I think that "1.9 Which is correct, Ruby or ruby?" needs to additionally
> include and describe a third name, "Ruby!", since Ruby is our method for
> changing the programming world for the better, right?

You're making me nervous.... ;-)

> As with Gnu and Perl, Ruby needs (at least 1) good acronym
> interpretation.  How about Ruby! recursively means "Ruby ups brain
> yields!" -- after all, Matz said a while back that we are (meaning
> he is :-) supposed to be smarter about language design than
> Perl. Incidentally, this interpretation has an interesting,
> appropriate, and catchy sort of "literalist Japanese translation"
> sound to it (not to mention multiple positive subsidiary
> interpretations).

very  nervous...


> These considerations further suggest applying the Perl motto to itself in
> the spirit of the third Perl virtue of hubris to yield the proposed official
> Ruby motto "There's a better way to do it!" (TABWTDI) complements another
> slogan that describes what I was previously searching for and thus that I'm
> very fond of -- "a better Perl than Perl".

This I like a lot, but how about "there are better ways to to it"?


I guess we've found the official Ruby marketeer!


Dave
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