From: Osuka Adartse <rocioestradacastaneda@...>
Date: 2004-04-07T05:52:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Where does the name Rite come from?

Eric Hodel wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>In message "Where does the name Rite come from?"
>>    on 04/04/06, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> writes:
>>
>>|Where does the name Rite come from? rewRite? :-)
>>
>>The name popped in my mind one day.  I coined Rite as "Ruby that
>>should be light (both syntax and implementation)" afterwards.
> 
> 
> Is the 'R' vs. 'L' intentional (like Rinda), or accidental?
> 
AFAIK and FWIW japanese doesn't have 'L' there's not "la li lu le lo" 
but "ra ri ru re ro" so 'Lite' would be written as 'Rite' i.e. リテ

maybe is just that... so it's intentionally accidental ;-)
Adartse