[ANN] Ruby 2.0!

[Chris Pine]

Big news!

Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)


<<< THE NAME >>>

Ruby -- named after our favorite language, of course!
Secunda -- our second child (after C), and the second Ruby
(in the roman tradition of numbering your children,
e.g. "Quintus" and "Octavius")
Kathrine -- named after the lead programmer on this project
(a tradition in her ancestral development house)
Pine -- yes, our last name, but also Matz once told me that
"matz" is Japanese for "pine"!


<<< FEATURES >>>

* Powerful audio output (even on those little tweeters)
* Net Wt. 9 pounds (or a little over 20k carats as Dave Thomas notes)
* FIFO digestive queue
* Ruby.length == 20 inches
* UNBEATABLE copy protection
* Dark brown hair
* Just plain FUN! (true to the Ruby lagacy)


<<< KNOWN ISSUES >>>

* FIFO queue occasionally behaves like a LIFO stack
* Ruby.sleep(ALL_NIGHT) seems to resume unexpectedly
* While C (her big brother) sends plenty of messages to Ruby,
Ruby doesn't seem to respond to C calls.


<<< SCREENSHOTS >>>

Screenshots will soon be available here:
http://pine.fm/FamilyPictures/?page=filter&year=2005&month=1

Currently, though, we've only put up our pre-release screenshots (and
around 4000 pictures of C).


<<< DOWNLOADS >>>

You wish!



Chris

 

[Florian Gross]

Big news!

Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)

Congratulations!

Just for the record: That other guy on those screenshots really has "C"
as his first name?

 

[Tom Rathbone]

Had me going for a second.. Congratulations to you both!

 

[Chris Pine]

Congratulations!

Thanks!

Just for the record: That other guy on those screenshots really has "C"
as his first name?

Yep. "C Maximus Pine", aka "cmax", aka "little C".

We like themes; sometimes the most creativity (or, in this case, just
the most fun) comes not from total freedom, but from interesting
constraints. There are just too many names to choose from. We needed a
theme, so we decided to name our kids after programming languages.

Yeah, my wife is pretty cool.

Chris

 

[Jamis Buck]

Yep. "C Maximus Pine", aka "cmax", aka "little C".

We like themes; sometimes the most creativity (or, in this case, just
the most fun) comes not from total freedom, but from interesting
constraints. There are just too many names to choose from. We needed a
theme, so we decided to name our kids after programming languages.

Yeah, my wife is pretty cool.

Chris

Okay, this has to be the coolest thread on this list in a while. No
offense to other posters, of course.

Thanks for the announcement, Chris. My wife and I (both a bit more
conservative than you in the naming department, apparently) enjoyed it
immensely.

 

[cyberco]

HHH!
Congratulations with your newborn (and a brilliant post)!
Cheers,
CyBerco

 

[gabriele renzi]

Chris Pine ha scritto:

Big news!

Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)

congratulazioni!

And definitely, the best announce of the year

 

[Lyle Johnson]

My wife really did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.

Congratulations on this wonderful addition to your family! I'd also
like to congratulate you on the clever play on words concerning your
"role" in the conception. Unless that pun was unintentional, then
never mind.

 

[Martin DeMello]

Big news!

Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)

Congratulations! Note that child processes, once spawned, are
notoriously difficult to control )

martin

 

[Premshree Pillai]

Heh, I was about to check for downloads.

Congratulations to the two of y'all!

 

[James Britt]

Chris Pine ha scritto:




congratulazioni!

And definitely, the best announce of the year

Well, it's early. There may yet be Ruby 3.0

James

 

[Craig Moran]

Congrats, Chris! I have a child due on 14 MAR. Hope you don't mind,
but I'm going to borrow your idea for an announcement.
C