From: "Brian Schröder" Date: 2004-12-15T05:42:08+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: Re: Ruby Article at Linux Journal On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:38:31 +0900 Kaspar Schiess wrote: > Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote in news:41B8CA50.9010602@gmx.de: > > > Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the *true* swiss army knife only > > have very few tools? My Victorinox has six of them and I use them all. > > That has nothing to do with a televison series starring Richard Dean > > Anderson that I loved and still love to watch(*). The swiss army knife > > simply is a very handy tool. I am not swiss but german. > > Yeah, I guess the classic one does have about 6 tools. But classic in that > connotation has almost only marketing meaning... > > Also about the Methaphor: I don't see why it should be swiss army > something. Granted, Mac Guyver certainly had a pacifist angle, where > pacifist meant that the good guys were prevailing. But should we not look > to other objects suited as analogy ? > > I would like: Ruby, like the Hitchhikers guide. It comes in a friendly > cover and has the words 'Don't panic' written on the cover. > Though I'm a big fan of the hitchhikers trilogy (or more accurately pentology), I don't know if I want to see ruby as the hitchhikers guide. Interpret this for yourself: In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the +Hitchhiker's Guide+ has already supplanted the great +Encyclopedia Galactica+ as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words +don't panic+ inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. cheers, brian -- Brian Schr�der http://www.brian-schroeder.de/