From: Brennan Leathers <digibren@...>
Date: 2003-01-09T09:36:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyists (Re: The Year in Scripting Languages (Final Draft))


On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:18  PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> We are rubyists, and some of us are ruby hackers.

I understand rubyists is the traditional (and perhaps correct) term. 
but at least for me, it is very awkward to say. I can't imagine it 
being easier to say for people who don't use English as their first 
language as its awkwardness has more to do with the sound of it than 
the use of -ists as a suffix, which is precise.

sometimes, a nickname is not needed (can't think of any for C or its 
variants). it is easy enough to say "ruby coders". I know it's a point 
of pride for some to have a nickname for a project's users, though...

Brennan