From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T06:38:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby tutorial download

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby tutorial download


> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:20:41AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>
> > > Someone asked that I make the ruby tutorial available for download,
> > > but I deleted the email by mistake, so I'm making a public
announcement.
> > >
> > > It can be found here:
> > > http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
> >
> > That's a good idea. Consider putting it
> > into the RAA.
>
> Isn't RAA more of an "Application" archive?

Yes and no.

One of the four major categories is Documentation,
and one of its thirteen minor categories is
Tutorial.

As an aside, I've always maintained that the term
"RAA" is a bit of a misnomer. I think that "Ruby
Archive" would be more accurate and more euphonious.

[Non-English speakers: Your word for the week is
"euphonious" -- the quality of a sound, especially
a spoken word or phrase , that is pleasing to the
ear. :)]

After all, actual "applications" are very much
in the minority in the RAA. More than 50% of it
is libraries. At a glance, there are 869 projects
in all, and 293 are in Applications.

But the name is probably one of those legacy things
that will not change.

Hal