From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-20T12:18:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11146] Re: Exciting to see "matz". [was Re: stopping a thread instance]

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11134] Exciting to see "matz". [was Re: stopping a thread instance]"
    on 01/02/20, Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com> writes:

|I am an experienced Perl user who has discovered Ruby through the DDJ
|article that I'm sure has increased your exposure radically.  I just
|started looking at this news group today, and I must say, it's very
|exciting to see the language designer replying to posts.  It's like
|the old days (before my time) in comp.lang.perl.misc, when Larry Wall
|was still around.

Nice to see you too.

Larry is still a nice guy.  But Perl community might have grown too
big.  I hope Ruby's community keep being nice and respectful as of
today, though it's OK to become bigger.

							matz.