From: Tim Hunter <sastph@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T01:53:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and civil political discussion? (Re: [OT] US Presidential Election)

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 01:42:15 GMT, "Dave Burt" <burtdav@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
>I'm _very_ impressed by the civility of this thread. It's almost as if 
>ruby-talk is real people, not just online hermits who cannot care about each 
>other by nature/. I seriously cannot recall any online political debate this 
>flameless.
>
>Why? Is it something about Ruby? I feel sure, with the representation in 
>this thread of the list, there's a correlation to be made. Age? Are you guys 
>older than /.ers?
>
>"Ruby: polite people's programming language of choice" ?
>
>"Ruby: programming for people, not just geeks" ? 
>

In my experience a community adopts the customs of its leaders. In our
case, that'd be Matz.