From: Diego Virasoro <Diego.Virasoro@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T04:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Java vs c++

> I realize you are a programmer but contrary to the machines you program,
> which interpret code literally, you hopefully have the power to INTERPRET,
> as opposed to a chip.
> Surely, you can make out that "u" = "you", etc....

Although I must agree that Paul was nitpicking too much, and I am happy
to be a bit flexible (for example lots of friends forget to capitalize
the first word of a sentence), some of those abbreviation you used do
take a while to be "processed".

You may think your readers will be happy to put up with it, but most
probably if they cannot work out one of your abbreviation in some short
time, they'll just give up and move to the next question.

So it's all a matter of who has the most interest in the communication,
if you or your reader.

That said, maybe you can set a small ruby script and everyone wins, you
get speed and the rest of us get clarity. :)

Diego