From: "DEBAUN, STEVE [AG-Contractor/2400]" <steve.debaun@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T06:58:23+09:00
Subject: Musical Instruments and Programming Languages (was RE: ANN: InfoQ	 Ruby Community "unlaunched")

Eh, looking at it from the other direction...

On a piano, you might be able to use more fingers, but you are limited to
which sounds you can produce because each key is tuned to a specific note.

In thinking with fretless instruments (isn't a violin fretless?), you have a
continuous range of possible sounds.  Of course some sound better than
others...

> > I tend to think of Ruby as the Stratocaster of programming languages.
> 
> I would have pick a fine Olson :)
> 
> -- Jim Weirich

And that would make visual basic... the karaoke machine of programming
languages?

sd