From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-07-13T00:26:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17728] Re: Ruby jobs

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

... and another (computer-, but not programming-) language/technology:
Ruby Annotation
http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/
"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in
East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short
annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of
an XHTML module 

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Tobias Reif
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