From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-10-10T16:31:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Python and their relatedness in Cyrillic ;-)

In article <8b40a85f.0303050657.7ca37ddd@posting.google.com>,
Yuri Leikind <leikind@mova.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A Russian-language Ruby resource has been started - http://ruby.iatp.by
>
>Currently it contains materials of a Ruby course which was developed and
>led in Minsk, Belarus, by Alexander Bokovoy and me. The course consists
>of 6 seminars.  It only targets the language, its design and built-in
>classes. We plan to develop supplementary seminars, devoted to certain
>libraries or/and technologies.
>
>Even if Russian is not your mother tongue, you can see what
>the course is looking at code examples - the language we all understand
>well ;-)
>
>

Horosho!

Hey, how come 'Ruby' is spelled 'Ruby' on your slides ? ;-)
Actually, I would have thought it would look like:
PybN (turn the 'N' around, and I know the 'b' isn't the right one (that's 
the 'v' sound) but I don't have the right one on my keyboard :)


Hey, I never realized this before:
Russian   ->    English:
   P  sounds like  R
   y  sounds like  oo

So, in Russian the first two characters of 'Ruby' are 'Py' - hmmm... 
something mighty suspicious about that... 

Phil