From: Christian Boos <cboos@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T20:57:12+09:00
Subject: RE: R (was: adding overload to ruby)

Well, I just want to apologize to Pixel, the Merd
author, who is indeed french and certainly knew what
he did :)

Anyway, here is the explanation I found on the web page:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 1:45 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: R (was: adding overload to ruby)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christian Boos" <cboos@bct-technology.com>
...
> > merd = 
> >     Ruby-like expressivity + 
> >     static type checks (a la Haskell) 
> > 
> > BTW, if this language ever wants to be taken seriously 
> > in the french speaking community, another name might be
> > a good start :)
> 
> Well, the French abbreviation for OOP 
> is POO, which has its own colloquial 
> meaning in English...   :)
> 
> Hal
> 
> 
>