From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-12T18:03:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01123] Re: The value of while...

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01121] Re: The value of while..."
    on 00/01/12, Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@alcatel.de> writes:
|
|No! It is fine as it is :-)

Is it?

|> |What about to introduce both? :-)))) If you cannot decide ... take
|> |both ;-))))
|> 
|> Taking that strategy, Ruby will grow into Perl sooner or later.
|> We should think one step smarter. :-)
|
|Ouch!!! Don't beat me so hard ;-) (have you seen the ';-)))' at the
|end of that paragraph?) :-)))

Yes, but I'd like to take this chance to re-declare that our strategy
is one step smarter than P language. :-)

|BTW: Unfortunately there are some Pythonees that already consider Ruby
|as kind of bastard whose father was Perl, but whose mother is
|unknown. I have already tried to discuss with them, but to no avail
|:-(
|
|They have had only a glance to Ruby, recognized the embedded regex
|syntax, see the not-so-small similarities with Perl and damn it
|therefore for eternity. What a pity for them!!! ;-)))))

Here's the quote for them. :-)

       First, they ignore you. 
      Then they laugh at you. 
       Then they fight you. 
          Then you win.

               -- Ghandi