Why Ruby?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/17/10 10:23 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
> On 17/12/10 06:52, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/16/10 1:30 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>
>>> The point here isn't that we want "a" and "b" to be replaced with "_"
>>> the point is that we want to get rid of the string and have a shorter
>>> and less verbose syntax for delegate literals.
>>
>> I understand. Using strings is witnessing the fact that we couldn't find
>> a shorter syntax that didn't have problems. That being said, it's very
>> possible there are some great ones, we just couldn't find them.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> "we just couldn't find them"
>
> Is that the royal "we" as in singular?
> If plural, may one politely inquire as to whom "we" are?

Walter, Bartosz Milewski, Eric Niebler, David Held and myself have 
discussed the issue a number of times. It has also been often discussed 
on this newsgroup.

Andrei