Hi, Phil ! If you don't know, language name not translated ;-) I think it was not fortunate joke. Sorry. Better, I think you should to wish more success in Ruby Russian Way. -- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:asodu / azot.cherkassy.net PT> In article <8b40a85f.0303050657.7ca37ddd / posting.google.com>, PT> Yuri Leikind <leikind / mova.org> wrote: >>Hi all, >> >>A Russian-language Ruby resource has been started - http://ruby.iatp.by >> >>Currently it contains materials of a Ruby course which was developed and >>led in Minsk, Belarus, by Alexander Bokovoy and me. The course consists >>of 6 seminars. It only targets the language, its design and built-in >>classes. We plan to develop supplementary seminars, devoted to certain >>libraries or/and technologies. >> >>Even if Russian is not your mother tongue, you can see what >>the course is looking at code examples - the language we all understand >>well ;-) >> >> PT> Horosho! PT> Hey, how come 'Ruby' is spelled 'Ruby' on your slides ? ;-) PT> Actually, I would have thought it would look like: PT> PybN (turn the 'N' around, and I know the 'b' isn't the right one (that's PT> the 'v' sound) but I don't have the right one on my keyboard :) PT> I never realized this before: Russian ->> English: PT> P sounds like R PT> y sounds like oo PT> So, in Russian the first two characters of 'Ruby' are 'Py' - hmmm... PT> something mighty suspicious about that... PT> Phil