From: Keith Fahlgren <keith@...>
Date: 2006-10-19T00:30:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Another topic for RubyConf

On 10/18/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> As if the folks at RubyConf don't have enough to talk about already,
> here's another topic. The Lisp community has this famous quotation:
>
>
>     Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."

Shouldn't this be (is Budda (small clean serious)) ?

>     Rubyist: "Buddha is ..."
 Buddha.is_a?(:Buddha)      =>   true    # not proper duck typing, I know

>     Pythonista: "Buddha is ..."
Buddha
      is
             a
                    whitespace-loving
                                  being

>     Java: "Buddha is ..."

public class BuddhaFactory extends DietyFactory {
  public void makeBuddha() throws Exception {
   ...



Keith