From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-19T12:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: How exactly does Tryruby work?


On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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!"
>
> -- 
>       vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>
Nope. Prison labor. Most do license plates. A few do vi.