高橋です。

Kazuhiro Yoshida <moriq.kazuhiro / nifty.ne.jp>さん：
> SoftwareDesign 1999.11(技術評論社) p.194 に
> >Alan Cooper 氏(Ruby の作者で Visual Basic の父と呼ばれる)の著書
> という文面があるのですが，この Ruby ってどの Ruby なのでしょ?^^;

どうもVisual Basicの元になった言語が「Ruby」という名前だった
ような……。

http://www.webword.com/interviews/cooper.html

> In early 1988 I invented a visual programming language called Ruby
> that I sold to Bill Gates. Ruby had a very well-developed
> direct-manipulation engine, but had a very weak programming
> language. However, I designed the language in such a way that it could 
> be easily upgraded. Bill exchanged the entire language with his then
> moribund QuickBasic product, and Visual Basic was born. I like to say
> that "I did the visual, and Microsoft did the Basic." 

# びっくり。
# っていうかRubyは元々visual系だったのか(^^;;;

高橋征義 (TAKAHASHI Masayoshi)       Email:maki / inac.co.jp