From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2006-10-10T22:48:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails On 10/10/06, Martin Coxall wrote: > > Are you sure? I think it's all assembler under the hood, although > > somebody told me it was all circuit design under the hood, and I know > > one guy who says it's all particle physics under the hood. > > You're very clever, young man, but it's turtles all the way down. Ah, grasshopper, but what are those turtles made of? Molecules => Atoms => Particles => Quantum effects Unless Quantum Effects are turtles. By the way, I love those "Professor" jokes. Here are two more: A linguistics professor was giving a lecture. He told the audience: "Although there are many examples in many languages of a double negative having the meaning of a positive. No examples have been found of a double positive meaning a negative." At which someone at the back of the hall said: "yeah, yeah".* A student on the Princeton campus ran into Professor Einstein. The famous theoretician said, "Excuse me young man, can you tell me where the Faculty dining hall is?" The student said: "It's right behind you professor," Einstein replied. "Then I must have already EATEN lunch!" *that first one might not come across well in written form since it depends on the 'yeah, yeah' being spoken in the right tone with the second yeah in a lower tone than the first. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/