Ruby making inroads at big corporation... small anecdote

RISP = Rails In Not PHP

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On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:31:28 +0100, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> 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.

-a

Ara.T.Howard wrote:

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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.

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

:slight_smile:

James

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Recompiling + UML + Buzzwording -> Yesterday

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Von: Stephen Kellett <snail@objmedia.demon.co.uk>
An: ruby-talk@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

>> Remember, Understand, Believe, Yield

Relax Under Bandstand Yodelling.

Reasoned Understanding Begets Youth.

Stephen
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Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting

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

-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_

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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:

"PERL".capitalize! # :slight_smile:

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

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 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 :wink:

RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML

RUBY ultimately begets YARV

Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro

RUBY Ultimately Bedazzles You

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On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
God bless you.

Hilarious! He'll tell his wife, Rinda!

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.

:wink:

-a

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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?

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phone :: 303.497.6469
anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

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 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 :wink:

RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML

RUBY ultimately begets YARV

Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro

RUBY Ultimately Bedazzles You

Other adverbs can also be used:

  Unconditionally
  Unequivocally
  Upliftingly
  ... etc. ...

... but probably not Uxoriously

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On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
God bless you.

as opposed to :

Punctuation Eats Readability Loser...

j.

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On 11/5/05, pauldacus@gmail.com <pauldacus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hilarious! He'll tell his wife, Rinda!

--
"http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?"

Jeff Wood

Lloyd Zusman wrote:

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

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 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 :wink:

RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML

RUBY ultimately begets YARV

Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro

RUBY Ultimately Bedazzles You

Rizzley Ubizzles Bewizzle my Yizzle :smiley:

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On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

Lloyd Zusman wrote:

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

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 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 :wink:

RUBY: Upholding the Beauty of YAML

RUBY ultimately begets YARV

Ranguage Undertaken By Yukihiro

RUBY Ultimately Bedazzles You

Rizzley Ubizzles Bewizzle my Yizzle :smiley:

http://www.brunching.com/cgi/acronymer.cgi?acronym=ruby

(try multiple times)

    robert

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On 11/4/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

Wow, that gave me:
Rendering Unified Block Yield

How very ruby! :slight_smile:

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On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

The Brunching Shuttlecocks | Toys | Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine

Gavin Kistner wrote:

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On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

The Brunching Shuttlecocks | Toys | Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine

Wow, that gave me:
Rendering Unified Block Yield

How very ruby! :slight_smile:

Definitely. How many attempts did it take? :-)))

    robert

Oh...maybe 20 :slight_smile:

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On Nov 7, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

Gavin Kistner wrote:

On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

The Brunching Shuttlecocks | Toys | Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine

Wow, that gave me:
Rendering Unified Block Yield

How very ruby! :slight_smile:

Definitely. How many attempts did it take? :-)))