From: Pete <pertl@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T05:15:43+09:00
Subject: Re: :-) Sharing a Shower Moment :-)

Java: What type are you?

public final class Duck extends AbstractAnimal implements MayQuack, CanSwim

AbstractAnimal extends Lifeform

Lifeform extends Object

oh, well... hail to type-safety :-)

just say quack, god-damn-it !



On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:55:14 +0100, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz>  
wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
>>
>>> Trans wrote:
>>>> What did the Rubyist say to the duck?
>>>>
>>>>   "What type are you?"
>>>>  What did the duck say back?
>>>>
>>>>   "Does it matter?"
>>>>  T.
>>>  Why did the duck cross the road?
>>>  To respond to the other method.
>>>  That, and the chicken retired.
>>>  - Dan
>>
>>
>> If a duck quacks in the woods... Does anyone.respond_to? his calls?
>
>
> You guys are Quacking me up. This is riDuckulous!
>
> Anyhoo, a Javadroid would say "What type are you?" and the Ruby duck  
> would give that reply.
>
> A Rubyist would say, "If I asked you to Quack, would you respond?" Or  
> using the postfix "unless"...
>
> "Quickly Quack unless have Qualms!"
>
> ...and promptly get nibbled to death by Ducks.
>
> I'll Quit now and go Quietly with no more Quirks.
>
>
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> Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
>
> "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong  
> later."
>
> From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
>