From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-06-13T03:03:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Switch to .ruby extension?

James Britt wrote:
> He discusses what he sees as geek pride and bravado in using languages 
> that lend themselves toward complex and/or terse code. In his view, 
> hardcore geeks disparage Visual Basic in favor of Java because VB is too 
> easy to learn and read; perl gets extra high points for executable line 
> noise and the barrier to comprehension (at least for outsiders).  He's 

I used to think Perl is a pretty good line noise until I see this:

  http://www.kx.com/a/k/examples/xhtml.k

I swear that when I first saw it, I thought my browser was displaying 
garbage (like when the browser is viewing a gzip-encoded webpage verbatim).

:-)
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dave