From: jweirich@...
Date: 2001-11-21T23:31:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26025] Re: Hello World considered harmful

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

    >> I do not understand it without manual parsing and thinking a lot. 
    >> It's not a good program and moreover it's not a good example. 
    >> Ruby is powerful OO language and its strength is not contained in string
    >> manipulation only ;)

    Dave> People, people.

    Dave> It was a _joke_ ....

Proving once again that it is possible to write Perl in *any*
language.

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