# Ruby Glossary

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document

  The one that matz is really bad at. He always says ``the source itself should be the document. It even describes bugs perfectly.'' But no one agrees.

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Japanese (language)

  Native language of matz, the author of Ruby. The cause of the poor documentation of Ruby (according to his excuse).

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matz

  Ruby's author. His real name is `Yukihiro Matsumoto'. If you say `You-Key-Hero Matz-motor' real quick, it sounds like his name. (`tz' as in `waltz')

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Perl

  Hmm.. Sounds familiar. What's that?

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Ruby

  The name of the object-oriented script language and its interpreter. The name `ruby' is not an acronym. It's named after the red precious stone, which is the birthsone of July. Notice pearl(Perl) is the birthstone of June.

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