From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T05:38:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [HAIKU] Re: Why Ruby over Python?

Okay, that made me smile :)

On 7/10/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Mat Schaffer wrote:
>
> > You really caught me with that Ruby Haiku concept.  I started working on it,
> > but the last line is really tricky to get up to five syllables and still be
> > meaningful.  It's an odd downside to ruby's terse syntax.
> >
> > Maybe I'll put a page for ruby Haiku on http://wiki.rubygarden.org/
> > Ruby/page/show/RubyFun once I come up with something :)
>
>    harp:~ > cat a.rb
>
>      raise :the, :red_flag unless :weak
>
>    throw :fear while :people and not :truth
>
>      :dove and :hawk while :death
>
>    harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>    (infinite loop on last line)
>


if :love == :pain
then raise ArgumentError
else print 'happy' end


And you have to read == and "equals" for the haiku to work

TwP