From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T02:13:46+09:00
Subject: Re: bad for Ruby in RUBY

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Dave Rose wrote:
> Robert Dober wrote:
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>> On 8/24/06, Dave Rose <bitdoger2@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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>>> 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....
>   

We aren't competing. This isn't a business.

-Justin

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