Wrong, but no need for a flame war. 
There was indeed a "Ruby" which was one of Alan Cooper's early
prototypes for what became Visual Basic; but the Ruby programming
language discussed on the ruby-talk mailing list is from a completely
different bloodline.
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:25:01 +0900, Joshua Kugler <jkugler@bigfoot.com> wrote:
I may start a flame war with this, but from what I understand, VB is
actually a distant descendant of Ruby. So, that might tell you something.
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