From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T06:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [HAIKU] Re: Why Ruby over Python?

On Jul 10, 2006, at 4:25 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Mat Schaffer wrote:
>> On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Tim Pease wrote:
>>> PS  We should have an official "Thank Matz" day.  Send him money, or
>>> an Apple iCard, or write a Ruby program that is a haiku and actually
>>> parses and runs -- hmmm ... Ruby Haiku day for Matz
>>
>> 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)

That 'while' was the inspiration I needed.  I was also trying to play  
on the "Thank Matz day" idea and do something a little useful.

for i in "Matz" do
   print "Thank you #{i}, ruby rocks."
end while :happiness

-Mat