[Air-L] JRuby -- what an awful name

[Barthel Ralph]

The naming follows a convention I suppose  - 'J' + 'Name of Programming language'
is frequently used in  projects aiming to enable use of other languages from within 
Java. There are also JPython, JPHP etc.

Ralph


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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Peter Timusk
Sent: Sat 11/22/2008 9:45 PM
To: Barry Wellman
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] JRuby -- what an awful name
 


On 22-Nov-08, at 2:44 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
>
>
> 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
>

I do not think they are associated that way. I do not think this was  
done on purpose.


Java is commonly J and Ruby is Ruby



It is too bad that you may have never been a coder youth yourself  
perhaps you were? I was and I never had the power to name a language  
as I doubt the namers of this are teens. I see some sort of agism here.


It brings up a common assumption in computer science that programming  
is not political. Lessig tried to argue otherwise but ask some  
programmers. You may find them as apathetic about politics as many.

Is this not seeing too much significance in this random connection?
  
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