I don't know... there seems to be a lot of mooning involved here... but with the talk of academics and mooning... I think I'll stay indoors with the blinds closed ;-/
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:35:33AM -0500, Bill Ricker wrote: > X-Warning-for-clue-impaired: Read with tongue firmly in cheek <<//EOJ > > Ruby -- The Pascal of the /200[\d]/s. > > Ruby is like Perl, only its proponents don't moon the academics, they > *are* the academics. So they don't need grants to give up the day job, > the university thinks writing useless languages is good, and the dayjob > is mooning the students. (If the university thought building Perl was > that good, we wouldn't have to have sprung Damian from /j/a/i/l/ > school.) So I fully expect Ruby-ites (Rubes? Rubicks?) to moon the the > sysadmins. (Is that what Dr.Dobbs said? I'd be worried if Dr.Dobbs was > in favor of Perl.) I don't know if Ruby has continuations, but I bet > they do ... and I bet they don't let people implement Ruby who don't > know about 'em. This begats a Rather self-limiting commmunity. Ruby may > be doomed to be the bastard child of Scheme and Perl, the next hot > pedagogic language that never escapes fromt he laboratory ... except in > rare outbreaks to be cleand up by CDC folks in moonsuits. > > //EOJ -- ___ __ __ __ _ _ ____ _ _ ____ ____ / __)( )( ) /__\( \/ )( ___) ( \( )( ___)(_ _) \__ \ )(__)( /(__)\\ / )__) ) ( )__) )( (___/(______)(__)(__)\/ (____)()(_)\_)(____) (__) Mary had a little RAM- about a MEG or so.
