From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-12T07:13:05+09:00
Subject: Re: God versus god (Was: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released))

On 7/11/07, MenTaLguY <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:26:14 +0900, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >> "God" (a proper name) and "god" (an ordinary noun) are distinct terms in
> >> English: the former refers to the Ultimate Being; only the latter is the
> >> generic term for deity.
> >
> > Take note of the fact that the particular piece of software we're
> > discussing was announced as "god", not "God".
>
> Nonetheless, he's using it unmodified as a proper noun.  Unless Tom cares
> to be more explicit, the intent of the analogy is ambiguous.

But god can't be a constant in  Ruby.