From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2001-01-28T01:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9981] Re: which ruby ...?

"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@zetabits.com> wrote:

> In message "[ruby-talk:9938] which ruby ...?"
>     on 01/01/27, Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:
>
> |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.
>
> I've noticed two or three other Ruby languages (years later I decided
> the name).  Probably I've chosen too common name.  That's too bad.
> Sorry if anyone would have inconvenience.

It's too late now--despite all the other things called 'ruby' (gems,
annotations, towns, restaurants, people, hummingbirds, obscure software
packages, and so on), the Ruby Dynamic OO Programming Language
overwhelmingly dominates the first 100 hits on www.google.com when doing a
search on 'ruby'.

Conrad