From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T11:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP in rubyforge?

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:51:40AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:10:51PM +0900, Peter Cooper wrote:
> >
> >Historical reasons.
> >
> >Is there any other type of reason for anything?
> >  
> I recall seeing that line in either AWDR or the Pickaxe. :)

It was the Pickaxe -- good eye.  I paraphrased, of course.

I note, by the way, that my randomly selected signature block below is
remarkably well suited to this topic.


> >  
> >>But then I realize how totally fun it would be if all of Ruby's base 
> >>classes
> >>and syntax were in Japanese. ;-)
> >
> >It would either finally impel me to get back to learning Japanese, or
> >keep me from learning Ruby.  I'd give it about 50% either way.
> >  
> I struggled through two years of Russian in college because someone had 
> told me that the Russians were ahead of the USA in math and computer 
> science. Hell, it turned out that they were still using vacuum tubes and 
> the only thing they knew how to do better than we did was probability 
> theory. I should have learned French instead -- or Japanese.

I should have kept practicing Japanese after that last Japanese class.
Now, I don't even remember how to ask for a restroom.  I get a kick out
of watching Japanese movies with subtitles and marvelling at the wide
disparity between translation and original Japanese, though, based on
the bits I still understand.

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"The ability to quote is a serviceable
substitute for wit." - W. Somerset Maugham