[ruby-talk:00393] Re: the name of Ruby?

From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 1999-06-10 21:38:09 UTC
List: ruby-talk #393
Hi, Michael

In message "[ruby-talk:00392] the name of Ruby?"
    on 99/06/10, "Michael Neumann" <neumann@s-direktnet.de> writes:
>matz, is it true, that you choose the name "ruby" to express that Ruby is the successor of Perl?
>(pearl => June, ruby => July)

I heard that the fact ruby == perl.succ was realized by matz after he
had decided the name :-)

-- gotoken

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