From: Chris Pine <cpine@hellotree.com>
 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
 Subject: [ANN] Ruby 2.0!
 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:29:57 +0900

 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