Quite a few blogs covered EuRuKo talks (for example here, here, here or here) so I am not going to do an n+1-th writeup. Instead I collected a few quotes I found interesting and/or funny. Without further ado, here we go:

Matz: Ruby - Past, Present and Future (Keynote)

• Chad Fowler wrote a book ‘My Job Went to India’ - and yesterday my luggage went to Oslo!
• Ruby was a hobby that came from not having a job after end of Japan’s bubble economy
• I consider myself as no great programmer!
• Then we have this nasty snake language here… (sampling through different languages starting from COBOL)
• Python people love to be organized and have one true way. Ruby people don’t care.
• (after going through a ton of different languages and finally arriving at Ruby) Ruby is not perfect either… but it’s close!
• We will need to keep Ruby alive when Rails will be gone… Hopefully Ruby will be around in 15 years, but Rails… hmm…khm… never mind.
• 10 years ago - Ruby? What’s That? Language? See This Cool Java!
• 5 years ago - Ruby? I’ve Heard of It. But I haven’t Used It YET.
• 2 years ago - Ruby! I Know! It’s for Rails, Right?

Koichi: Merging YARV is not a goal but a start

• (Running around in a t-shirt ‘No Ruby No Life’) My version: No Ruby no Job!
• 1st slide: [some completely different slide than his real topic title] - this is just a joke, the presentation is not on this
• I don’t speak English so I wrote down everything on the slides… unfortunately most of the slides are in Japanese! (LOL)
• Please ask questions in Japanese/C/Ruby! … or use slow/short English
• I have a lot of slides (hm, like 50) of different optimization techniques but it’s just too much so I won’t show you here
• My PhD thesis is in Japanese (Efficient implementation of Ruby VM), so please learn Japanese if you’d like to read it
• NT means not Windows NT but Native Thread
• Ruby thread and native thread: (shows a brutally complicated slide, fully in Japanese) and I would like to point out this part (clicks a button, and a red frame appears around a portion of fully Japanese text)
• This is complex so I skip it (after the 10th incomprehensible slide)
• I can’t program in Ruby!
• Come to Japan/Enter my Lab (please teach me English) - Unfortunately I can’t employ you because there is not enough money, so please bring your own $
• (response to a question about YARV’s memory need:) Yes, YARV also needs memory to start the VM! (considers the question answered. When asked for further details:) How much? hmm… you need to measure yourself

Charlie Nutter, Tom Enebo: JRuby - Ready for Action

• Java != a dirty word!
• Did you see this demo already? No? Good. Everybody has seen this 100 times in the US so they are really sick of it!
• See? new is on the right side of the class name!
• I love swing (after listing 9342923 looooong fuctions of the Button class)
• this would take 6-7 lines of Java (after adding a listener to a button in 1 lines of Ruby syntax)
• This is the weirdest error I have ever seen during a demo! I guess Mac OS X is not ready for this stuff yet (after not being able to kill off a process which slowed down his machine)
• Kill that bird!!!! (after thunderbird jumping around for like 5 minutes after OSX bootup)
• ColdFusion is not a fine example for anything (Charlie, after a guy proposing CouldFusion as an example of… I don’t remember what but it doesn’t matter)

Disclaimer: Please take the above with a grain of salt - it might seem based on the above sentences (which were taken out of context and possibly squeezed/lost in translation) that Koichi’s topic was to pursue people to learn Japanese (not true, his talk was very interesting and deep) or Matz was making fun of/mocking Python (not true, he was just joking all the time) etc. If you have some more, drop me a comment!

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