From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T08:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Squeamizh wrote:

>
> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Sep 1, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Rob Sanheim wrote:
>>
>>> I find it amusing that he says Rails is too risky and new, yadda
>>> yadda, but then he goes on to talk about their in-house language,
>>> "Wasabi":
>>
>> I too found that beyond ironic.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> Do you know what ironic means?

ironic |����r��nik| |a����r��n��k| |������r��n��k|
adjective
using or characterized by irony : his mouth curved into an ironic smile.
��� happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically  
causing wry amusement because of this : [with clause ] it was ironic  
that now that everybody had plenty of money for food, they couldn't  
obtain it because everything was rationed.

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My usages of the term seems OK to me.

Joel bashed Ruby for being unproven, then went on to say that they  
were using a custom language they invented.  By his own definition,  
that is unproven.  That's "happening in the opposite way to what is  
expected" because of his earlier statements and it also causes me  
"wry amusement."

Did this attack on my grammar serve some purpose?

James Edward Gray II