From: "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...>
Date: 2000-12-19T13:54:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7650] Re: GUIs for Rubies

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> Dave Thomas writes:

> # Footnotes: 
> # �  Mostly not _real_ bugs. The majority are because we spelled UNIX
> # Unix.
> 
> You've gotta be kidding!!!!
> 
>  That seems preternaturally pedantic, not to mention preposterously 
> punctilious--so much so that I'm almost automatically aroused to fits of 
> alliterative apoplexy. 
> 
> The first 200 returns from Google show that both UNIX and Unix forms are 
> very common. Ditto for LISP and Lisp. And as for FORTRAN and Fortran, the 
> all caps form is on the endangered species list. Even my spelling checker 
> doesn't think Unix is uncouth. 
> 

So, for the record, how do we spell:

ruby?
RUBY?
Ruby?

or...

rUby?
RuBy?
roobee? :-)

Kent Starr
elderburn@mindspring.com