From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T05:58:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby making inroads at big corporation... small anecdote.

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, James Britt wrote:

> Stephen Waits wrote:
>> 
>> I gave a brief talk about PSP game programming to the SDSU ACM group  last 
>> night.
>> 
>> Out of about 25 attendees, two raised their hands for Ruby.  One of  the 
>> two worked at Qualcomm.  He mentioned that historically, they've  done lots 
>> of PERL stuff, but now Ruby is slowly being phased in,  gaining momentum as 
>> a choice over PERL.
>
> Interesting.
>
> Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people start 
> referring to RUBY.
>
> :)
>
>
> Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.
>
> Rapid Understanding Before Yesterday
> Really Ugly Bastards Yodeling
> RUBY: Uplifting Beautiful Yammering
> RUBY unmasks brutal youth
> Rarely unnatural block yielding

you obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuse ;-)

-a
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