[Air-L] JRuby -- what an awful name
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Sat Nov 22 11:44:00 PST 2008
Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President JFK.
As you may recall, Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot JFK, and Jack Ruby
shot LHO 2 days later.
I'd find the name JRuby loathsome on any day, but yesterday I came across
a programming language with that name.
"JRuby is an 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming
language." http://jruby.codehaus.org/
The Codehaus Foundation is an open-source group.
I do suppose that those who did this knew the connotations. Ah, coder
youth. But didn't somebody tell them?
I still grieve 45 years later, but now I have hope.
Barry Wellman
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Department of Sociology University of Toronto
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