From: Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@...>
Date: 2002-10-04T03:38:57+09:00
Subject: Re: CRuby (Was: R)

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:23:20AM +0900, Anders Bengtsson wrote:
> Michael Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I'm being obtuse here, but I always considered the original
> > Ruby interpreter to be called "ruby".  I wasn't aware there were
> > other names out there vying for contention.
> 
> Michael,
> I may be the obtuse one, since I had to look up the word "obtuse" in my
> English-Swedish dictionary. :-)
> 
> Since the interpreter and the language share the same name, how do you
> know if "ruby" refers to the interpreter or language?
Similar to perl and Perl cases?
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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