From: hal9000@...
Date: 2001-07-13T00:14:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17726] Re: Ruby jobs

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:10:33PM +0900, Andrew Hunt wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:52:37 +0100, Peter Hickman 
> > <peterhi@shake.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I was looking on Job Serve here in the UK (things aren't 
going too well down
> > > in old Brighton) when I thought. "Any Ruby jobs going?" 
and Lo!
> > > 
> > > There were 3, lumped in with Perl and Python it has to be 
said but they were
> > > there.
> > > 
> > > Maybe the future is looking a little rosier.
> > 

Excellent news... if they were lumped in with Perl and Python,
it sounds like they really refer to "our" Ruby. May we know
some details of these, if there are any? I'm curious to know
what (forward-thinking) companies are actually paying people
to code in Ruby...

By the way:

It never hurts to double-check everything you see. There are
apparently at least two other languages named Ruby.

Note these two links:

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/geraint.jones/ruby/

This references a Ruby which seems to be an HDL.

http://www.sdtimes.com/news/031/story20.htm

This refers to Alan Cooper as the inventor of the Ruby langauge
("a precursor to Visual Basic").

On a more positive note, a Yahoo search for "Ruby language"
yielded results of which more than 90% referred to "our" Ruby.

Just FYI.

Hal