From: Steve Martin <wrecklass1@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T18:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

Mat Schaffer wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 4:25 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>> meaningful.  It's an odd downside to ruby's terse syntax.
>>
>>     :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

I had to add my own, > cat haiku.rb:

since = "Ruby is king"
puts "Perl and Python way down"
raise "Matz up" if 'agreed'

Yea, it throws a runtime error, but I liked the poetry.

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