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Stephen Waits

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Nov 4, 2005, 11:59:41 AM11/4/05
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I gave a brief talk about PSP game programming to the SDSU ACM group
last night.

Out of about 25 attendees, two raised their hands for Ruby. One of
the two worked at Qualcomm. He mentioned that historically, they've
done lots of PERL stuff, but now Ruby is slowly being phased in,
gaining momentum as a choice over PERL.

--Steve

James Britt

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Nov 4, 2005, 3:54:29 PM11/4/05
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Interesting.

Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people
start referring to RUBY.

:)


Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.

Rapid Understanding Before Yesterday
Really Ugly Bastards Yodeling
RUBY: Uplifting Beautiful Yammering
RUBY unmasks brutal youth
Rarely unnatural block yielding

:O


James

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Ara.T.Howard

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Nov 4, 2005, 3:58:43 PM11/4/05
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, James Britt wrote:

> Stephen Waits wrote:
>>
>> I gave a brief talk about PSP game programming to the SDSU ACM group last
>> night.
>>
>> Out of about 25 attendees, two raised their hands for Ruby. One of the
>> two worked at Qualcomm. He mentioned that historically, they've done lots
>> of PERL stuff, but now Ruby is slowly being phased in, gaining momentum as
>> a choice over PERL.
>
> Interesting.
>
> Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people start
> referring to RUBY.
>
> :)
>
>
> Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.
>
> Rapid Understanding Before Yesterday
> Really Ugly Bastards Yodeling
> RUBY: Uplifting Beautiful Yammering
> RUBY unmasks brutal youth
> Rarely unnatural block yielding

you obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuse ;-)

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James Britt

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Nov 4, 2005, 4:03:56 PM11/4/05
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Ara.T.Howard wrote:

>> Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.
>>
>> Rapid Understanding Before Yesterday
>> Really Ugly Bastards Yodeling
>> RUBY: Uplifting Beautiful Yammering
>> RUBY unmasks brutal youth
>> Rarely unnatural block yielding
>
>
> you obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
> acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuse ;-)


Hey, I offered *two* GNU-styled self-refs there!

James

Jacob Fugal

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Nov 4, 2005, 4:24:11 PM11/4/05
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On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T....@noaa.gov> wrote:
> > Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people start
> > referring to RUBY.
> >
> > Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.
> >
> > Rapid Understanding Before Yesterday
> > Really Ugly Bastards Yodeling
> > RUBY: Uplifting Beautiful Yammering
> > RUBY unmasks brutal youth
> > Rarely unnatural block yielding
>
> you obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
> acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuse ;-)

RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML

?

Jacob Fugal


Ara.T.Howard

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Nov 4, 2005, 4:40:38 PM11/4/05
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lol!!

James Britt

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Nov 4, 2005, 4:48:45 PM11/4/05
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RUBY ultimately begets YARV

Ed Howland

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Nov 4, 2005, 5:09:18 PM11/4/05
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On 11/4/05, James Britt <jam...@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Jacob Fugal wrote:

> >>>Rarely unnatural block yielding

> > RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
>
> RUBY ultimately begets YARV

These 3 are good.

I vote for the latter.

;)

Ed


Stephen Waits

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Nov 4, 2005, 11:39:15 PM11/4/05
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James Britt wrote:
>
> Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people
> start referring to RUBY.

Sorry.. in my day I learned PERL as Practical Extraction and Reporting
Language. Maybe I learned it wrong a dozen years ago..

--Steve


James Britt

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Nov 4, 2005, 11:59:12 PM11/4/05
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I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to poke fun at you; I've just grown
accustomed to seeing job ads and recruitment E-mail that refers to
PERL, JAVA, and similar miscapitalizations. And I figure it is only a
matter of time before buzz-oriented HR folks start asking for RUBY
experience.

Anyways, in the spirit of geek pedantry: Perl is not an acronym. It is
a backronym or retronym, as the meaning of individual letters was
retrofitted to the name of the language after it was chosen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl

Stephen Waits

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Nov 5, 2005, 12:11:55 AM11/5/05
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James Britt wrote:
> [snip]

> Anyways, in the spirit of geek pedantry: Perl is not an acronym. It is

Ok.. s/PERL/Perl/g from now on then. Looks like the first Perl book I
read way back whenever was wrong.

Anyway.. we diverged.

--Steve


David A. Black

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Nov 5, 2005, 12:13:48 AM11/5/05
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Stephen Waits wrote:

> James Britt wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Anyways, in the spirit of geek pedantry: Perl is not an acronym. It is
>
> Ok.. s/PERL/Perl/g from now on then.

"PERL".capitalize! # :-)


David

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Matt Lawrence

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Nov 5, 2005, 12:20:02 AM11/5/05
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> "PERL".capitalize! # :-)

So now the Pragmatic Programmers are capitalizing on Perl? What is the
world coming to?

-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_

Hal Fulton

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Nov 5, 2005, 1:31:20 AM11/5/05
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James Britt wrote:
> Jacob Fugal wrote:
>
>> On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T....@noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>> Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when
>>>> people start
>>>> referring to RUBY.
>>>>
>>>> Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.
>>>>
>>>> Rapid Understanding Before Yesterday
>>>> Really Ugly Bastards Yodeling
>>>> RUBY: Uplifting Beautiful Yammering
>>>> RUBY unmasks brutal youth
>>>> Rarely unnatural block yielding
>>>
>>>
>>> you obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know
>>> that an
>>> acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately
>>> obtuse ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
>>
>
> RUBY ultimately begets YARV

Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro


Hal


Lloyd Zusman

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Nov 5, 2005, 1:59:57 AM11/5/05
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Hal Fulton <hal...@hypermetrics.com> writes:

RUBY Ultimately Bedazzles You


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Lloyd Zusman

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Nov 5, 2005, 2:14:57 AM11/5/05
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Lloyd Zusman <l...@asfast.com> writes:

Other adverbs can also be used:

Unconditionally
Unequivocally
Upliftingly
... etc. ...

.. but probably not Uxoriously

paul...@gmail.com

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Nov 5, 2005, 10:38:18 AM11/5/05
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Hilarious! He'll tell his wife, Rinda!

Jeff Wood

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Nov 5, 2005, 11:39:27 AM11/5/05
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as opposed to :

Punctuation Eats Readability Loser...


j.


On 11/5/05, paul...@gmail.com <paul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hilarious! He'll tell his wife, Rinda!
>
>
>


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Daniel Schierbeck

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Nov 5, 2005, 12:02:19 PM11/5/05
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Rizzley Ubizzles Bewizzle my Yizzle :D


Devin Mullins

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Nov 5, 2005, 12:27:31 PM11/5/05
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> Then we'll have to invent a backronym for it.

Really, U Better Yoose-it
Rapid Usage's Banned, Yes?
Run it Until it Begs You
Rapid Understanding, Block Yielding
Released Under a Branch of Yggdrasil
Remember, Understand, Believe, Yield
Rough Underneath, But Yummy
Relentless Use Brings Youth
RUBY Usually Believes You
Rarely Usurped By Yacc
$refreshing unless brain { yield }
$ruby.untaint { bias... yo }
Ruby Un-Bring Your (Love To Town)?

> Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro

LOL!

> :O

You're tellin' me.

Devin

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg

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Nov 5, 2005, 7:43:31 PM11/5/05
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"Radically Utopian Block Yields" sums it up for me.

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Stephen Kellett

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Nov 6, 2005, 12:57:48 PM11/6/05
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In message <436BCA68...@neurogami.com>, James Britt
<jam...@neurogami.com> writes

>Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people
>start referring to RUBY.

But what about the LAMP stack - will that become LAMR? I can't see that
one catching on.

We can all hope Ruby becomes a RoRing success.

Stephen
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Toby DiPasquale

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Nov 6, 2005, 3:27:15 PM11/6/05
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:11AM +0900, Stephen Kellett wrote:
> But what about the LAMP stack - will that become LAMR? I can't see that
> one catching on.

LARM.

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Ara.T.Howard

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Nov 6, 2005, 3:31:28 PM11/6/05
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Toby DiPasquale wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:11AM +0900, Stephen Kellett wrote:
>> But what about the LAMP stack - will that become LAMR? I can't see that
>> one catching on.
>
> LARM.

ALARM even. catchy.

Pete

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Nov 6, 2005, 3:40:17 PM11/6/05
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On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:31:28 +0100, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T....@noaa.gov>
wrote:

James Britt

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Nov 6, 2005, 3:46:09 PM11/6/05
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Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Toby DiPasquale wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:11AM +0900, Stephen Kellett wrote:
>>
>>> But what about the LAMP stack - will that become LAMR? I can't see that
>>> one catching on.
>>
>>
>> LARM.
>
>
> ALARM even. catchy.


What's the extra 'A' for? Ara?


:)


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Ara.T.Howard

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Nov 6, 2005, 3:57:56 PM11/6/05
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, James Britt wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Toby DiPasquale wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:07:11AM +0900, Stephen Kellett wrote:
>>>
>>>> But what about the LAMP stack - will that become LAMR? I can't see that
>>>> one catching on.
>>>
>>>
>>> LARM.
>>
>>
>> ALARM even. catchy.
>
>
> What's the extra 'A' for? Ara?

hah! meant to type

ALRM

though i'd much rather see

PARL

and all the fun puns, like

speak parl?

parlez vous rubais?

nous parlon!

blog named 'parl speak', etc.

;-)

Peña, Botp

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Nov 6, 2005, 8:58:02 PM11/6/05
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Hal Fulton [mailto:hal...@hypermetrics.com]:

#Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro

love that.

also, something akin to pickaxe,

Ranguage Unearthed By Yukihiro


Robert Klemme

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Nov 7, 2005, 3:59:26 AM11/7/05
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http://www.brunching.com/cgi/acronymer.cgi?acronym=ruby

(try multiple times)

robert

Gavin Kistner

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Nov 7, 2005, 9:17:56 AM11/7/05
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On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> http://www.brunching.com/cgi/acronymer.cgi?acronym=ruby

Wow, that gave me:
Rendering Unified Block Yield

How very ruby! :)


Robert Klemme

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Nov 7, 2005, 9:24:47 AM11/7/05
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Definitely. How many attempts did it take? :-)))

robert

Gavin Kistner

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Nov 7, 2005, 10:57:41 PM11/7/05
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Oh...maybe 20 :)


murphy

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Nov 9, 2005, 9:00:36 AM11/9/05
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> Remember, Understand, Believe, Yield
brilliant! That will be on my next t-shirt!

Stephen Kellett

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Nov 9, 2005, 11:28:20 AM11/9/05
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>> Remember, Understand, Believe, Yield

Relax Under Bandstand Yodelling.

Reasoned Understanding Begets Youth.

Peter Ertl

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Nov 9, 2005, 11:38:54 AM11/9/05
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Recompiling + UML + Buzzwording -> Yesterday

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Stephen Kellett <sn...@objmedia.demon.co.uk>
> An: ruby...@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> Betreff: Re: Ruby making inroads at big corporation... small anecdote.
> Datum: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:32:13 +0900

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