From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T01:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing Japanese Language and Some Ruby Trivia

Michael Sullivan wrote:

> [snip]
>
> Coincidence?

Absolutely. I suspect the term and concept of "Ruby annotation" to be a 
lot older than the programming language, and AFAIK, the name of the Ruby 
programming language is a reference to its roots in Perl. The fact the 
gemstone used as the language is ruby might, but doesn't have to be, 
intentionally, subconsciously, or coinkydinkally related to Ruby 
annotation. If you want to know for certain, submit Matz to regression 
hypnosis and take him back to the time he was deciding for a name of the 
language.

David Vallner