So much has happened today that I did not have much time to blog, but there is so much good stuff from the final panel, so I will write about some quotes:
Aslak Hellesøy said: Going from Java to Ruby is like take a straitjacket off and now you could fly.
We also got the story about why Ruby is called Ruby and why Rubinius is called Rubinius.
There is a very simple reason for Ruby; Ruby is influenced by Perl and because Perl is like Pearl, Matz was running through names of gems and looking for the shortest one. That was Ruby.
Rubinius is originally Rubinus as Ruby in latin but Rubinus was not an easy spoken word so Evan Phoenix was looking for something better – a friend suggested Rubinius and because it sounded like a wizard name, Evan liked it.
Filed under: panel | Tagged: Aslak Helleshøy, Copenhagen, Evan Phoenix, final panel, Kim Dalsgaard, Matz, Quotes, Ruby, Ruby Fools, Ruby Fools 2008
