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p_l on March 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Standard Ruby 1.0

It does make itself sound like it's the standard, when it has no relation to either formal (ISO) or living standard (the body of language tests that make multiple compatible Ruby implementations possible).

It's pretentious naming at its worst, IMHO.

And yes, some people might have been looking for language standard and be mislead by this.

vidarh on March 7, 2021 [–]

A name like that makes me intentionally want to avoid it exactly because I don't want to reward misleading naming like that.

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