From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hfulton@...>
Date: 2001-05-06T15:45:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14734] Re: Ruby on a JVM - good or bad idea?

----- Original Message -----
From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; Dave Thomas
<Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
Cc: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:05 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:14729] Re: Ruby on a JVM - good or bad idea?


> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > Not wishing to pour cold water on this flamefest, but...
>
> I have no clue what you are talking about.  If this is a pun, it doesn't
> fit with the metaphore i used. If this is about the tone of the mail,
> well, I didn't make any kind of personal attacks.

He was only making a reference to your term "playing with fire." He
didn't mean "flame" in the Usenet sense.

Cheers,
Hal