From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T23:07:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Visual Basic

On 7/27/06, Ike <rxv@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "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

My ears are burning, my ears are burning!
LALALALALALALA can't hear you! LALALALALALALA


Seriously though, about the only similarity I can think of is the lack
of semi-colons.