Eleventh

Did you know that Ruby was Matz’ eleventh take on creating a programming language? Listen. So don’t despare next time you fail, you are right on track.

“I sat down and counted the other day and Ruby was eleventh language I’ve tried to write. Out of those 4 only had names, 3 of them didn’t work at all… the rest of them was just experiments. Ruby is the only one that really worked, so I guess that makes Ruby the first one, but it was one out of eleven attempts.” ~ Matz

          The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain
          and simple to express:
                     Err
                     and err
                     and err again
                     but less
                     and less
                     and less.
          
          ~Piet Hein
          
« Home | This article was published on February 11, 2008.

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