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Re:The Birth of Visual Basic (2006) by afandian on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:54PM (#8439693)
Wikipedia puts Ruby at 1993. I think it's reasonable to assume that Matz hadn't heard of a project that started not much earlier.

"I guess" you didn't think to check.

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Re:The Birth of Visual Basic (2006) by fleeno on Friday October 10, 2014 @04:05PM (#8439751)
And I don't think the people "in" Ruby on Rails named Ruby!
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