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		tesseract on March 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby's Biggest Challenge for 2009 I believe that 1.9 was supposed to be a beta (1.5 and 1.7 were), but the plans for 2.0 got to be too ambitious and there came a need for a version number between 1.8 and 2.0. I suppose it could have been called 1.10 but there were presumably good reasons.

chrislo on March 23, 2009 [–]

> I suppose it could have been called 1.10 but there were > presumably good reasons.

If I remember correctly, that's due to the way ruby sorts strings

  ['1.8','1.9','1.10'].sort  #=> ["1.10", "1.8", "1.9"]

tesseract on March 23, 2009 | [–]

Ah. Maybe it should have been done in hex?

  %w[1.8 1.9 1.A].sort  #=> ["1.8", "1.9", "1.A"]

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