From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T12:18:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17960] Re: Rubygarden Poll

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:17931] Re: Rubygarden Poll


> > The next poll will be interesting: "I prefer building Ruby GUIs with:"
> 
> Hating to show my ignorance, I must ask: What is "hybris"?
> 

More often spelled _hubris_ to reflect English pronunciation, 
but probably more accurately spelled with a y. 

Side note: As in _dynamis_, "power" roughly pronounced 
_dunamis_, whence we get "dynamic," "dynamite", etc.
German still preserves this; the upsilon (y) is pronounced
like a u with an umlaut.

From Greek mythology. Overweening pride, as in
the kind that goes before a fall. Actually, I *think* Hybris
may have been a person originally, a person punished
by the gods for his pride or presumption.

Here used half-facetiously. Wasn't it Larry Wall who started
this usage? I think his mantra is "laziness, impatience, and
hubris" -- the three great qualities of a programmer.

In this sense, might possibly be synonymous with nerve,
brass, guts, cojones, gumption, etc., depending on who
you talk to and how they interpret these infinitesimal 
gradations of meaning.

$0.03,
Hal