From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-01-27T04:10:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9949] Re: which ruby ...?

Kent Dahl wrote:

# I was reading some software magazine I grabbed off a shelf in
# boredom, when I suddenly noticed the word "Ruby", about a
# programming language, and to my horror it wasn't _the_ Ruby that
# everyone on this ng have a crush on.
# 
# <QUOTE
#   paper     = "The Future of Software(www.futureofsoftware.net) Winter
# 2000/2001 Vol 1, No.1"
#   publicist = "Fawcette Technical Publications"
#   article   = "It's All About Interfaces"
#   author    = "Alan Cooper"
# >
# <URL> http://www.futureofsoftware.net/ac0010/ac0010.asp </URL>
#   "In 1988, I created Ruby; a visual programminge language I sold to
# Microsoft.
#    Microsoft combined Ruby with the moribund QuickBASIC language to
# create Visual Basic."
# </QUOTE>
# 
# A search on www.google.com for Ruby+"Alan Cooper" reveals more.
# 
# Should Ruby-enthusiasts around the world be worried??? 

Which Ruby-enthusiasts? :-)

And should they be worried about what? 

More seriously, there are something like (at least) half a dozen other 
substantial pieces of software called Ruby that have been previously cited 
in the Ruby NG and ML. (The oldest mentions are probably in the 
pre-comp.lang.ruby archives of the Ruby ML)

Conrad Schneiker
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