From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-04-01T17:35:34-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02336] Re: Ruby-Python fusion?

From: SUGIHARA Hiroshi (SuHi or SugHimsi)
> mrilu <mrilu@ale.cx> wrote:
>
> > this case has emergency priority. At least for me.
> >
> > Have you read from comp.lang.misc (crossposted to c.l.python)
> > Yukihiro Matsumoto's detailed proposition how Ruby development should be
> > merged to the development of forecoming Python versions.
> >
> > I quote few pieces, in case you don't have news access (this will be at
> > deja.com within hours, at least in days):
>
> Please quote it with headers.
>
> (This time I cannot make sure if it was posted on Apr 1 ;-)

I don't have a Ruby program that cross-correlates spelling and grammatical
preferences, but it sure looks like it was "translated" by someone other
than Matz; more like the first poster as a matter of fact.

Plus it contradicts what Matz has previously posted on c.l.py:

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Subject: Re: Python advocacy
Date: 03/08/2000
Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>

akuchlin@mems-exchange.org (Andrew M. Kuchling) writes:

|(This is why I think the Ruby people are being too grandiose in their
|claims.  If Python and Perl haven't killed off Tcl, and Java hasn't
|killed off Python and Perl, it's unlikely that Ruby is going to manage
|any of those feats.  Ruby certainly can form a healthy community of
|its own and prosper alongside these other languages, of course.)

Are we?

I consider myself as a provider of alternative, not killer, nor
replacement.  Of course I know people tend to be grandiose in
advocacy, even Pythoneers.
      matz.
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Conrad