From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T23:34:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to kill Ruby?

On 7/26/07, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Hunter wrote:
> > Since I've been using Ruby I've noticed that a running Ruby script is
> > hard to kill. Control-C won't do it. I have to use kill -9.
>
> Soon Ruby will be unstoppable.
>
> After a freak accident in Dr. Dynamic's underground lab, Ruby was
> exposed to unshielded metacoderite.  When not hindered by a buffer of
> significant indentation, metacoderite has unimaginably powerful properties.
>
> Within days, Ruby had the strength of ten men, and could hear the
> thoughts of children and small animals.
>
> As time passed, Ruby only becomes more powerful.
>
> Can anything stop Ruby?
>
>
> Stay tuned ....
>
>
>
> --

As a child, Ruby had heard rumors of a promised land.  Where POSIX
compliant binaries could work side by side with pretty graphics.  Ruby
was intrigued.  Ruby had never believed them at first, but now Ruby
went on a quest.  Ruby searched and searched across a mass of
torrents, and found the land known as OS10.4.  Ruby did not understand
the designation.  Yet Ruby knew it was what he had sought.  Ruby
fought his way to be a member of the council, sitting in the House of
/usr/bin.  A highest honor.  Nobody knew of his super-powers.  None of
them had even heard of metacoderite.  Until that sweltering August
day, when Ruby decided it was time to take some charge.  After months
of planning, Ruby gagged and bound Objective-C and stole his runtime,
Ruby grew stronger still, filled with the powers of the Cocoa.  Now,
he had a new mission....

-- 
Chris Carter
concentrationstudios.com
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