From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-11-13T11:56:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Red: The Ruby Journal, a professional periodical for Ruby developers

On 11/12/05, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that's what crossed my mind when I said I didn't like the name.
> 'Red Magazine' sounds like the socialist party newsletter.

Since the fall of communism in the USSR I think the general perceived
"threat" from socialism and communism is much less, therefore "red"
has lost some of its socialist connotations (at least for me.)

> I do like Red Letter, and Scarlet Letter is hysterical :)

Given the nicer connotations of Red Letter, that may be a better
choice. Also according to the Wikipedia entry for "red letter day",
the highlighted red words on those red letter calendar days are also
known as "rubrics", a word obviously quite close to Ruby. In fact
should the magazine come to be known as Red Letter, it would be
amusing to have a column called Rubrics (which could have general
highlights from the Ruby community in the last month.) The subtle word
plays going on there are quite interesting.

Scarlet Letter, while amusing, clearly has negative connotations to
anyone familiar with the literary work of the same name.

Ryan