From: Ike <rxv@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T22:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Visual Basic


"Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f204810a0607270629y5117c911m18bb17b9c1b05a34@mail.gmail.com...
> On 7/27/06, Ike <rxv@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Some years ago I wrote a magazine review regarding Visual Basic. At the 
>> time
>> I was informed by Microsoft that it was modelled after an earlier
>> incarnation of a program called "Ruby," by a fellow named Alan Cooper.
>>
>> Would that be the same Ruby we are using today? I ask this because,
>> syntactically, it seems very much the same as Visual Basic. Thanks, Ike
>
> ARRGGHHH! You must be kidding!
> Don't say that PLEASE!
>

I don't like it either -- but SYNTACTICALLY there are many 
similarities! -Ike