From: "void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@...>
Date: 2006-03-11T03:23:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Python looking better ...

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?
> 
Because there is no such thing (yet) as hovercraft tricycle errors, but 
there are (still) bus errors.