From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T20:29:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

On 6 Mar 2007, at 12:40, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 06.03.2007 11:52, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> On 3 Mar 2007, at 07:22, _why wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:29:18PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
>>>> On any other language list, if I announced a book on a different
>>>> language, I'd get flamed until crisp.
>>>
>>> You should do one on VBScript.  I'd like to see what that reaction
>>> would be like.  For my own purposes.
>> A couple of years ago when I was doing real-time VB I'd have been  
>> up for writing that ;)
>
> Ouch!  Did you mention "real time" and "VB" in one sentence?  I  
> know that "real time" mostly just means "guaranteed response times"  
> but in my mental world VB and real time don't mix very well.   
> (Which probably only means that I have to adjust my mind.)
>
> Amazing...

To the best of my knowledge I'm the only person who's ever had a pure  
VB5 system certified for aviation use. Needless to say I avoid flying  
whenever possible - who knows what other horrors lurk in the cockpit...

Of course if I still worked for that company I'd probably be doing a  
Rails version ;p


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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