From: Alan Fritz <Alan.Fritz@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T21:42:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Musical Instruments and Programming Languages (was RE: ANN:InfoQ Ruby Community "unlaunched")

Q: What's bigger, a viola or a violin?

A: They are the same size, it's just that violinists heads are bigger. Ha
ha!

-Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Bowman [mailto:charlie@castlebranch.com]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:38 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Musical Instruments and Programming Languages (was RE:
ANN:InfoQ Ruby Community "unlaunched")

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