From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-05-28T16:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: InfoQ Ruby Community "unlaunched"

Hi --

On Sat, 27 May 2006, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

>> "In this light, the piano emerges as the Ruby or Rails of the musical 
>> instrument kingdom."
>> 
>> I tend to think of Ruby as the Stratocaster of programming languages.
>
> Whoops, that should be "...as the Ruby on [not or] Rails of the..."
> (Obie, if you're reading this, please fix :-)

Actually I was right the first time: I did indeed mean "or" (as in, by
this analogy, the piano could be seen as the Ruby, or the Rails, of
the musical instrument kingdom.

I guess the way I worded it was confusing, at least to me :-)


David

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