On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Bram Cohen wrote:

> Erik Curiel wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Wasn't Ruby originally written in Japanese?
> 
> The person who wrote Ruby is japanese, I dunno if it ever had japanese
> keywords though - I've heard people who don't speak english words usually
> just learn the handful of english keywords and live with it, sort of like
> how us english speakers use lambda.

Bram's right--Matsumoto Yukihiro -san wrote Ruby, but like most Japanese 
programmers, they used English keywords and such. Japanese computer 
magazines are dense maze of english keywords separated by japanese 
particles.
 


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