From: Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@...>
Date: 2000-01-17T10:24:45+01:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01154] Re: The value of while...

Yukihiro Matsumoto writes:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:01152] Re: The value of while..."
>     on 00/01/17, Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:
> 

...

> Maybe easy-to-understand expressive documents in BETTER English will
> help reduce misunderstanding.  Ok, we should better work on publishing
> the Ruby Book in English.

:-))) 

> 
> |No! The most Perlers was astonishly silent. They tends to be more
> |noisy if discussing Python in theirs group.
> 
> I guess comp.lang.perl.misc is too noisy to discuss about other
> languages. 

Ehrm ... I have meant, that normally comp.lang.perl... will be very
noisy, but this time (about Ruby) they was more-or-less silent.

>  | But after matz' |announcement of Ruby there was only some (1-4)
> posts with contents |like: Oh no! Yet another language... :-) But
> I've got positive comments from Tim Peters and few others.

That was comp.lang.python. And there it is exactly oppposite. They are
open and more-and-less silent about other languages; except that other
language is called Perl ;-)

BTW: It was the positive comment from a Pythoner that had lead me to
     Ruby :-)

> 
> 							matz.

\cle