From: "Mills Thomas (app1tam)" <app1tam@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T07:02:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0

I suppose no one else wanted to do this, but...

Set your terminal's font to 2px in size, maximize the window (I used a
term in nt-emacs), and run this on the command line (This used the DOS
flavor; ymmv).  It tickled me pink...

ruby -le"256.times{|y|print' '*(255-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?' .':' A'}}"

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kelly [mailto:billk@cts.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 11:20 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Ruby 2.0
> 
> 
> From: "Zach Dennis" <zdennis@mktec.com>
> > 
> > This doesn't run on my system....
> > 
> > C:\source\projects\wxruby\src>ruby -le '32.times{|y|print"
> > "*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?" .":" A"}}'
> > 'y' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> 
> DOS is too dumb to understand single quotes... :(
> 
> Try,
> 
> ruby -le"32.times{|y|print' '*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?' .':' A'}}"
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
>