From: "Molitor, Stephen L" <Stephen.L.Molitor@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T23:18:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Musical Instruments and Programming Languages (was RE: ANN:InfoQ Ruby Community "unlaunched")

Q: What's the definition of a quarter tone?

A: Two oboes playing in unison.


Q: What's the difference between a saxophone and a lawn mower?

A: Vibrato.


OK I'll stop now.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Fritz [mailto:Alan.Fritz@york.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:43 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
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