From: Tom Willis <tom.willis@...>
Date: 2005-03-13T03:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Help a newbie pick a gui tool kit

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:41:10 +0900, Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:05:20 +0900, Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:27:43 +0900, Dennis Roberts <denrober@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So I am still learning Ruby.  I am also learning C.  I just did
> > > Conways Game of Life in C.  I showed my wife and she wasn't impressed.
> >
> > Welcome to Ruby. I have tried the same, showing some thing I made
> > and get the same reaction.  I don't know any longer what it takes to impress.
> >
> 
> To impress your wife if she is no programmer herself, best use Flash,
> don't program a line but make the words "I love you" fly blinking
> along the screen and form a heart afterwards. Sounds silly, is silly
> but shurely works better than the nicest, most impressive and best
> designed library/application ever written
> 
> ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
> --
> Brian Schr�der
> http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/
> 
> 

In the case of mine, I'd have to program a first person shooter that
is as every bit as fun as Quake 3 Arena in ruby. ;)

Needless to say I've given up.....




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