From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-10-19T12:48:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How exactly does Tryruby work?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> There's a 13-year-old kid watching a log file with "tail -f". When a 
> request comes in, he reads it off the monitor and types it into a Mac 
> Mini running "irb". Then he copies the "irb" results into an HTML page 
> source that he's editing in "vi" and does ":w!" to update the HTML!

"And what's behind that vi window, making that work?"

"You can't fool me, Mr. James, it's teenagers all the way down!"

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