From: Sergey Abel <abel_sm@...>
Date: 2000-10-31T04:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5949] To further promotion of Ruby

Dear Rubyists,

There are two definitions of "Ruby" in Denis Howe's FOLDOC
(the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing),
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/

1. A relational language designed by Jones and M. Sheeran in
1986 for describing and designing circuits (a hardware
description language).

2. One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms.
The other languages are Brilliant, Diamond, Nonpareil and Pearl.

<hype off>
FOLDOC exists since 1985, contributions encouraged.
</hype>

Are there any other popular encyclopedias around the Net?
There is the Jargon File.  Is Eric Raymond aware of Ruby nowadays?

S.A.