"Dave Thomas" <Dave / thomases.com> wrote in message
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> Folks:
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> Andy and I have a question:
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> We know why _we_ like it, but we're interested why others do. This is
> motivated by the fact we need to produce compelling preface and/or
> back-cover copy that will draw people who've never heard of Ruby in to
> the book, and hence in to the community.
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> I could go on here listing our reasons, but I won't because I don't
> want to taint your answers. But, if you have any great insights, we'd
> love to here them.
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> On a related note, we're also looking for a word to describe the Ruby
> programming paradigm. Some people call Ruby a scripting language, and
> sell it by saying it's better than Perl, or more OO than Python. We
> don't feel that's doing the language justice, and in fact we go out of
> our way to avoid the word 'scripting'. ...

Have you considered requesting that "The Object Oriented S*****ing Language"
be changed to "The Object Oriented Programming Language" in the upper left
hand dark red corner of the banner used on Ruby's home page and it's
subsideary pages?

Conrad