From: Tom Sawyer Date: 2003-01-09T09:54:26+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. direct from the horse's mouth. Rubyists we are then. On Wednesday 08 January 2003 05:36 pm, Brennan Leathers wrote: > 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. yet, i agree. i'm happy to use the term Rubyists, but to save my mouth some contortions i will probably pronounce it as "Rubists" most of the time. -- tom sawyer, aka transami transami@transami.net .''. .''. . *''* :_\/_: . :_\/_: _\(/_ .:.*_\/_* : /\ : .'.:.'. .''.: /\ : ./)\ ':'* /\ * : '..'. -=:o:=- :_\/_:'.:::. | ' *''* * '.\'/.' _\(/_'.':'.' : /\ : ::::: = *_\/_* -= o =- /)\ ' * '..' ':::' === * /\ * .'/.\'. '._____ * | *..* : |. |' .---"| * | _ .--'| || | _| | * | .-'| __ | | | || | .-----. | |' | || | | | | | || | ___' ' /"\ | '-."". '-' '-.' '` |_. ------------------------------------------------------------