From: Ross Bamford Date: 2006-01-04T04:03:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Rubyhelp wanted /offered On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:50:35 -0000, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:42:57AM +0900, Ross Bamford wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, 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. > Heh, didn't think of that, I just had visions of the flames I'd probably get from that were this a different newsgroup :) For the sake of the record, let me just say that I'm not insinuating anything at all about the lawfulness (or otherwise) of most Rubyist's activities :D -- Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk