From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-11-02T04:49:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24109] Re: OT: Curl - new kid on the block [was: Ruby and Python: a fuzzy question]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Leavengood <RyanL@mosaicsoftware.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:24106] RE: OT: Curl - new kid on the block [was: Ruby
and Python: a fuzzy question]


> > Which reminds me, do we have any cool acronyms for Ruby yet?
> > Such as... Really Useful Brain Yanker.
>
> How about in the tradition of GNU recursive acronyms:
>
> Ruby Unveils a Better You
>
> or
>
> Ruby Understands it Before You do
>
> or
>
> Ruby is Undoubtedly Better than You think
>

I always thought of it (no offense intended!) as
"Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro."

> While we are on the topic of the Ruby name, I was checking out a book
> about gems and noticed that ruby is the birthstone on the month after
> pearl is (pearl is June, ruby is July.)  Is this where the name comes
> from?  Ruby as the language after Perl?  Hehehe.  I just thought that
> was interesting.

Matz has said that he noticed this long ago... I think it was *after* he
named the language, though. A similar bit of synchronicity that he
mentioned was the "pearl" and "ruby" type-sizes (though that's something
I'm not familiar with -- must be old typesetting jargon).

> I also learned quite a bit about rubies in that book
> and have some interesting names for future Ruby projects or web-sites.

I also have a list of about fifteen such names, many of which are
pathetic puns, and some of which are mildly cool, like "RubyLaser."

Hal