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Overview

Ruby is the debut album by American rock group Ruby, featuring Tom Fogerty. Track listing Personnel Tom Fogerty – guitar, vocals Randy Oda – guitar, keyboards, vocals Anthony Davis – bass, vocals Bobby Cochran – drums, vocals Ed Bogas – bass on "Baby, What You Want Me to Do"

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Notable quotes

“I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.”
— Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007) "Smalltalk, Outside The Ivory Tower?". at Giles Bowkett.blogspot.com July 15, 2007
“Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people.”
— Yukihiro Matsumoto, cited in: Pat Eyler (2009) "MWRC 2009 Mini-Interview: Philippe Hanrigou", on-ruby.blogspot.nl March 3, 2009
“"Everything is an object" - Smalltalk and its children. (whispered:) Ruby. (laughter)”
— Larry Wall "Present Continuous - Future Perfect", Taken from the transcript of the talk.
“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.”
— Larry Wall "The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 : In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with xscreensaver .

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