From: prosys@...
Date: 2003-08-20T14:43:04+09:00
Subject: LotY (was Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?)

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 01:26, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Ben Giddings wrote:
[snip]
>
> KISS.  Search for "switched" "Ruby".  Use your brain to figure
> out what direction the switch was made, or what the typical
> formulations of the sentiment were.
>
> Using this approach on the Google newsgroup archives, and
> restricting to comp.*, I immediately found a thread from this
> group with 73 posts.  "What New Language After Ruby?"  I'm not
> exactly certain how to shorten these URLs anymore, so here's
> the peanut butter:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
>8&threadm=ak08gr%24sb3%241%40grapevine.wam.umd.edu&rnum=1&prev=
>/groups%3Fq%3Dg:thl948581557d%26dq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3D
>UTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dak08gr%2524sb3%25241%2540grapevine.
>wam.umd.edu

That thread mentions the Language of the Year (LotY) project, and 
the Pragmatic Programmer website lists Haskell as LotY 2002.  
Ummm ... did I miss something?  Aren't we almost into 2004??