From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2003-11-29T16:02:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advertisement article [Computerwoche]

"Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<20031127231206.GA6139@jupp%gmx.de>...

> I was not thinking of licensing issues. The problem lies elsewhere:
> Not all Chinese and Koreans will find it acceptable to use software
> written in a language that originates in Japan.

Interesting point. I read in an article (in Wired, I think?) that one
of the reasons PC gaming is so much bigger in South Korea than console
gaming is that all the consoles (until X-Box) were manufactured by
Japanese companies. Korea is one of those countries that's had a few
centuries of fending off invaders from all sides, which can make a
culture fiercely nationalistic.

At any rate, I'm Korean, and when I went to RubyConf this year I found
Matz to be very nice. So there's one other thing software can be good
for. Though I always wonder what it's like to be a non-native English
speaker and program in all the English-centric programming languages
out there ...

Francis