From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-04-02T08:03:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Goes to the Sun

Dňa Sobota 01 Apríl 2006 17:31 James Britt napísal:
> I've not seen this translated anyplace, but the Japanese Ruby site has
> an announcement about Ruby being bought (yeah, I was surprised, too) by
> Sun Microsystems; Matz is moving to California!
>
> The purchase takes effect on Christmas; in preparation for Sun
> ownership, Matz is adding static typing (so it plays better with
> Java(tm)), and replacing those annoying "end" keywords with significant
> indentation, a la Python.  (You'll get used to it.)  The new name will
> be Ruby 2 Enterprise Edition 3000.
>
> The best part, though, is that James Gosling will be adding an
> interplanetary navigation library.  Pretty sweet!

Pffft, -waaay- too obvious. I prefer April's Fools jokes that are completely 
believable. Setting up hoax sites with fake news articles would gain major 
bonus points ;P Possibly an interview with the Sun CEO as a mild giveaway ;P

David Vallner