This post originally appeared on Code-love. In an online chat session between Yukihiro Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka in early 1993, a discussion ensued about the name of a programming language that ...

This isn’t a slight against the language though! It has continued to evolve in the duration, with the release of 1.x versions. In fact Ruby 1.9, which released in 2007, changed the language in ...

I'm a mild newbie programmer-to-be.<BR>I've taken a quarter of C++, and know a modicum of Smalltalk-80(Squeak), as well as some light shell scripting. C++ didn't really groove terribly well with me, ...