From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T21:37:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Musical Instruments and Programming Languages (was RE: ANN:	InfoQ Ruby Community "unlaunched")

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If a violin is the equivalent of ruby code,
then my banjo must be the equivalent of trying to re-write all of ruby
in perl and then running it through a java VM......on windows!


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:09 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 
> DEBAUN, STEVE [AG-Contractor/2400] wrote:
> > And that would make visual basic... the karaoke machine of programming
> > languages?
> >   
> No, the viola ... as in "What's the difference between an onion and a
> viola?"
> 
> "Nobody cries when you cut up a viola."
> 
> Or -- "A man drops a viola, a banjo and an accordion off the top of the
> Empire State Building. Which one hits the ground first?"
> 
> 
> "Who cares? As long as they all get smashed to bits!"


Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com

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