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Interview with the Creator of Ruby
Lisa writes: "Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto talks about Ruby's history, the influence of Perl and Python on Ruby, and his new book, Ruby in a Nutshell. In the article he explains: "When I started the language project, I was joking with a friend that the project must be code-named after a gemstone's name (àla Perl). So my friend came up with "ruby". It's a short name for a beautiful and highly valued stone. So I picked up that name, and it eventually became the official name of the language. Later, I found out that pearl is the birthstone for June, and ruby is the birthstone for July. I believe Ruby is an appropriate name for the next language after Perl.""
well, thats all i could think of...
DCR Spamcannon!!
Ruby is a better design, while Perl is more mature. Ruby is growing up however. Soon Ruby will control the world. I just had pizza. Where are my pants?
go fuck a donkey with bin laden you communist hippie!
already doing that
(ha ha ha bart say eat my shits)
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this is not off-topic, if anything it's +1 amusing.
Thank you.
--Patrick Bateman, Esq.
It is a goatse.cx redirect!
that's not offtopic at all - that's exactly my immediate thoughts when i read what implied ruby to be the next language after perl!
come on - even this site is written in perl!
I just heard some terrible news on talk radio - musician/ex-beatle George Harrison was found dead this morning in a California house. More information wasn't available. I'm sure we'll all miss him. Even if you didn't like the beatles, you probably liked "The life of Bryan". Truly a British icon.
pearls are formed by an irritant inserted into the oyster. Naturally, this would be a small rock or grain of sand. In pearl farms, they probably use something else.
The oyster builds up a lining around the irritant, to protect itself.
Stone? well, it might have a small one at the center.
Overpriced? Well, the prices aren't artificially inflated, as is the case with diamonds
Of course, it's a matter of supply, demand, and asthetics. Why is gold so valuable? It looks nice, doesn't tarnish, and is rare. It's useful in electronics, but that's a modern use. Consider all the people and wars fought over it, it's only value was a man-induced one.
I thought so.
George Harrison, one of the 4 Beatles died in last night in Los Angeles. And I bet you don't believe it. Well, believe it
I'm going to call it ASS, which will stand for Active Scripting Somethingrather. People will use it because theirs won't stink, but everyone else's will. Of course, they will know that everyone else's stinks because of the power of Open Source - everyone will want to packet-sniff everyone else's ASS to see how theirs is configured, which one is pretty, and which one stinks.
I long for the day when I will have an o'reilly interview where I get to sit and talk about ASS.
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!" - a dog
the rubble at the wtc dsite is stil smoking and you faggot geeks wnat to bitch about languages and artificial inteelligence? grow the fuck up
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is the greatest programming language on Earth.
All other languages, including C++, Java (especially Java), Perl, Python, and YES even this young whippersnapper Ruby - ALL of these are mere toy languages.
Yes, I'm sorry but in order to find a better language to program in, you'd have to leave this planet and find another one to live on. And, in all likelihood, the inhabitants of that planet, being the Superior Beings that they are, will have already invented Lisp, and tossed all those other languages on the garbage pile of history.
That was all I had to say.
Return to your sector.
Well, it's either that or bitch about your sorry grasp of your own language and your utter lack of intelligence. Which would you rather have us do, dipshit?
Is a perl a gemstone? Isn't it pearl? And it's not a gemstone, is it?
If you disagree with an opinion in a reasonably politely worded message, respond with a good technical argument. Don't throw out random accusations or moderate down messages you merely disagree with.
Also, don't point people at a few hundred pages of documentation--it's counterproductive. If proponents of a tool are incapable of producing a concise statement of why their tool is better than other tools, people are entitled to assume that it isn't worth looking into it further. The burden of proof is on the shoulders of people who want mindshare, not on the shoulders of people who want to use existing tools.
(As for Ruby, it seems like a reasonable language with a nicer C interface than Python. Enough to switch? I don't know.)