From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-11-19T12:20:17+09:00
Subject: Re: The Poetry of Code

Hi --

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> I loved this blog entry and I just had to share it with you!
> 
> Curt
[...]
> 
> Ruby isn't like that at all. Programs are small, concise, and eerily
> expressive. Not like Java at all. I think I might need to look to Ruby's
> Eastern origins. A haiku, perhaps:
> 
> 
> 
> a Ruby program
> before I even notice
> is already done

Another characteristic of Ruby programs is that as you work on them,
more and more code disappears from the screen....  So maybe that poem
should really just be:

  a Ruby program


:-)


David

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