From: Tim Hammerquist Date: 2005-09-20T18:21:38+09:00 Subject: Re: The Ruby troll [was: Looking for...] ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.perl.misc.] Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > I believe I was one of the first who realized the nature of it > (the troll), Congratulations. > Guess I hoped that one or two Ruby programmers would have > dissociated themselves from his actions. The lack of responses > there makes me blame not only the troll, but also the Ruby > community, and in my world, that's a rational reason for not > considering the use of the language. I'm a Ruby fan, but I wasn't even following this thread until the word "Ruby" popped up in the subject. Thus I can't say if I agree with this troll or not, nor am I willing to take the time to find out who said what. Most long-time posters, and from what I can tell, a good amount of lurkers as well, in these NGs as well as many others, treat trolls as they *should*: they *ignore* them. If Perl were judged by it's trolls, as you judge Ruby, we'd never have outgrown comp.lang.perl ... I'm happy in my world. Where perl is king, ruby his sexy queen and languages are judged by their usefulness, not their zealots. (I also show lenience toward Lisp, despite it's association with Emacs.) ;-) C'mon, Gunnar. You've been around this group for some time. I've watched your skills and posting style improve. You've seen gurus, trolls, and hostile posters of all sorts come through here. Would you judge Larry's creation based on Purl Gurl's ever eloquent dissertations? Tim Hammerquist -- A supercomputer is a device for converting a CPU-bound problem into an I/O bound problem. -- Ken Batcher