From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-03-11T02:38:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Python looking better ...


On Mar 10, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Pistos Christou wrote:

> James Britt wrote:
>> Ruby are helped if Ruby is better known and people are assured  
>> that more
>> Ruby hackers can be found if a bus takes out the one or two Rubyists
>> they know.
>
> I just have one question.
>
> Why is at always a BUS that would hit Ruby programmers?  This is  
> EXACTLY
> the vehicle a former boss used in the hypothetical story he used to
> justify why I shouldn't use Ruby [anymore (heh)].  Are high-capacity
> passenger transport vehicles just naturally attracted to Rubyists?
> Angered by them?  Or maybe the Amalgamated Transit Union has a secret
> vendetta against us?
>
> Are we not worth of being hit by cars?  vans?  trains?  hovercraft?
> *momentarily tries to envision being "run over" ("blown over?") by a
> hovercraft*  tricycles?
>
> Pistos
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

It's always a bus because the bus has a long and venerable tradition  
in taking out programmers.
See: http://web.archive.org/web/20000422005356/http://segfault.org/ 
story.phtml?mode=2&id=38b40d78-087dd360