From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T10:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance


On May 22, 2006, at 9:32 PM, James Britt wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Bob Hutchison wrote:
>>> Ruby's focus is on something other than performance.
>> exactly.  write poetry in french - scream insults at hockey games  
>> in english.
>
> Unless they're French-Canadian.

Hmmm? French-Canadians are pretty good at poetry.... Oh, you mean the  
insults... well of course it's in english... the english in Canada  
don't speak french... not a lot of fun if nobody understands your  
insults :-)

Cheers,
Bob


>
>
>
> -- 
> James Britt
>
> "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
>  for machines to execute."
>   - H. Abelson and G. Sussman
>   (in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)
>

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