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
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
James
--
http://www.ruby-doc.org - The Ruby Documentation Site
http://www.rubyxml.com - News, Articles, and Listings for Ruby & XML
http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
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 
-a
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
email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
phone :: 303.497.6469
anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
-- h.h. the 14th dalai lama
===============================================================================
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
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!
You're tellin' me.
Devin
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
In message <436BCA68.7070003@neurogami.com>, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> writes
Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people start referring to RUBY.
--
Stephen Kellett
Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html
Computer Consultancy, Software Development
Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting
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 yieldingyou 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
RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
?
Jacob Fugal
On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@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 yieldingyou 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
Stephen Waits wrote:
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..
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.
James
--
http://www.ruby-doc.org - The Ruby Documentation Site
http://www.rubyxml.com - News, Articles, and Listings for Ruby & XML
http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
"Radically Utopian Block Yields" sums it up for me.
On 11/5/05, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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!
>
You're tellin' me.
Devin
--
Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
LARM.
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.
--
Toby DiPasquale
Remember, Understand, Believe, Yield
brilliant! That will be on my next t-shirt!
lol!!
-a
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jacob Fugal wrote:
On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@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 yieldingyou obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuseRUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
phone :: 303.497.6469
anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
-- h.h. the 14th dalai lama
===============================================================================
Jacob Fugal wrote:
On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@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 yieldingyou obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuseRUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
RUBY ultimately begets YARV
James
--
http://www.ruby-doc.org - The Ruby Documentation Site
http://www.rubyxml.com - News, Articles, and Listings for Ruby & XML
http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
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
ALARM even. catchy.
-a
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.
email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
phone :: 303.497.6469
anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
-- h.h. the 14th dalai lama
===============================================================================
Remember, Understand, Believe, Yield
Relax Under Bandstand Yodelling.
Reasoned Understanding Begets Youth.
Stephen
--
Stephen Kellett
Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html
Computer Consultancy, Software Development
Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting
These 3 are good.
I vote for the latter.
Ed
On 11/4/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
Jacob Fugal wrote:
>>>Rarely unnatural block yielding
> RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
RUBY ultimately begets YARV
"PERL".capitalize! #
David
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 isOk.. s/PERL/Perl/g from now on then.
--
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net
James Britt wrote:
Jacob Fugal 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 yieldingyou obviously don't work for the government - otherwise you'd know that an
acronym must be double nested or self referring to be adequately obtuseRUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML
RUBY ultimately begets YARV
Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro
Hal
On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote: