From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-01-09T18:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyists (Re: The Year in Scripting Languages (Final Draft))

Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> wrote:
> 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.

In actual practice I call myself a ruby user.

martin