From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T02:11:12+09:00
Subject: Re: This is why Ruby 1.8.6 can never be made to run anywhere near as fast as Python 2.5.1

On 9/26/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:16:39PM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
> > > On 9/24/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:50:07AM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
> > > > > On 9/24/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I've been Ruthless my whole life.  I've only been Graceless since she
> > > > > > dumped me in 2003.
> > > > > C'on Chad please correct this false second sentence ;).
> > > >
> > > > No, really.  I dated someone named Grace.  She dumped me in 2003.  What's
> > > > so false about that?
> > > >
> > > You were also graceless before you met her, right? Sorry for playing
> > > such stupid games <blush>.
> > > Robert
> >
> > Nah . . . I wasn't Graceless then.  I was just "yet to be Graced".
> of course, stupid me and you are ruthless because one cannot be
> "ruthed", this is indeed *not* a symmetrical case,
> I'd better stop before I get banned ;)
> Robert


This all reminds me of one of my favorite old "Tom Swift" jokes:

  "What our baseball team needs is a man who can hit sixty home runs
in a season!" said Tom, ruthlessly.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/