From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T02:50:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyhelp wanted /offered

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:42:57AM +0900, Ross Bamford wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> 
> >I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists.
> 
> In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could be  
> about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater density of  
> hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists to know (and  
> even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or Python, where a  
> greater proportion of the community is probably mostly monolingual.

It'd be especially controversial if the sort of non-hacker that doesn't
know the classic definition of "hacker" saw that.

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Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

"A script is what you give the actors.  A program
is what you give the audience." - Larry Wall