From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T23:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Friday, December 19, 2003, 12:00:08 AM, jbritt wrote:

> Hal Fulton wrote:

>> But as an old-time Unix hacker, I prefer short names. Two letters is
>> best, but my usual threshold is around five.
>> 
>> That's one reason I like "lin" (on Lunar Linux) better than apt-get or
>> whatever. Though I will probably end up running Fedora instead...


> On the ruby-doc list, while discussing a possiboe extension of ri, we
> first refered to it as 'ri.next', then shortened it to 'rj'.


But RubyForge has no such appetite for short names, so it's known as
'rjay' there :)

Gavin