From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-07-14T11:42:29+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

In message <a33af2d2043f5d6d32a85875c43a9277@ruby-forum.com>, Joe Wiltrout writes:
>I will use my google skills now, TO FIND BETTER HELP. All of these tips 
>were agravating, annoying, useless, telling me what I did wrong, telling 
>me to do stupid stuff like that hellish Hello World crap, or all of the 
>above. Not to mention, im going straight to dam C++. I have a better 
>chance if I tackle the lion with my sword and shield rather than wait 
>until the lion is hungry and attack it with the knoledge how to kill a 
>baby lion. If you don't get the anology, your not as smart as you think 
>you are.

It's a very bad analogy for the reality.  You're telling people who regularly
take out elephants with combat knives how to hunt.

I think the best analogy would be that, since you're finding crawling
unacceptably slow, you've decided to go straight to the skateboard.  Good
luck with that.

-s