From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-12T03:47:47+09:00
Subject: Re: google trends, bad comparisons, &c

pat eyler wrote:
> James Britt posted a comment[1] about the new google trends tools[2],
> claiming that people would try to use it for all kinds of bad comparisons
> (his examples were between Ruby and other programming languages).

Just to be clear: I didn't *claim* that; I went and *did* that.
> 
> I can't imagine that anyone would stoop to something like that.
> 

Heavens, no.


> On the other hand, I'm worried about Ruby's long term viability, as
> google shows that its popularity is being threatened by the popularity
> of eating spiders[3].

No way!  Those bastards.

I like spiders; they eat the bad bugs and (I think) scorpion eggs.

But scorpions eat spiders.

Quite the battle.

http://rubyurl.com/jEI



-- 
James Britt

"Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers."
  - Voltaire