From: Dave Rose Date: 2006-08-25T02:07:20+09:00 Subject: Re: bad for Ruby in RUBY Robert Dober wrote: > On 8/24/06, Dave Rose wrote: >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> Hmm I fail to share your POV, but just for the sake of argument let us > assume I shared it. just let me paraphrase a wall street journal article that i read a long time ago on how executive decisions are made..... two equally qualified executive candidates were given the opportunity to sample an ice bowl with touthpick stuck shrimp meat...the one who sampled the shrimp palm up squeezing the toothpick between his fingers got the job... this was MS.Manner's way of doing... Even though this had nothing to do with the job ...APPEARANCE...does count sometimes more than logic does (and i have read Bruce Tate's book from JAVA 2 Ruby)....Remember we are competing with the Warm Safe Java womb ...i don't recall EVER that JAVA in it's formative year being a hackers game.... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.