From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T06:25:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems Buys Rights to Ruby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason D. Smith" <jason@atdesk.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems Buys Rights to Ruby


>
> > > I'm surprised nobody in the list has mentioned this.  I read in a
ZDNet
> > > newsletter thing that Sun decided Ruby was "almost as well designed"
as
> > > Java(tm), and negotiated a deal to buy the rights to Ruby.
> >
> > :) Is this a joke or a meta-joke?
> >
> > I mean, does the ZDNet note exist or did you make it up? If it exists,
> > can you point us to it?
>
> Date check ...

Yes... but the ZD people sometimes have a sense of humor, too.

The folks at Ziff-Davis are at least not unaware of Ruby's existence...
John Dvorak made (favorable) mention of it months ago...

Off-topic:

As long as we're talking April Fool's Day... does anyone remember the
wonderful April Fool's issue that Computer Language magazine used
to have? And how they quit doing it because so many people Just Didn't
Get It?

I recall they had a hilarious article entitled "My Life as a FORTH
Interpreter"
or some such... and a wonderful history of UNIX (which was almost too true
to be a joke)... and the review of volume 4 of Knuth's _Art of Computer
Programming_ (a single blank page), which was perhaps the
last nail in the coffin of the special issue.

Ahh, those were the days.

Hal Fulton