From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T06:18:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27859] Re: Trolling ;)


Oh no.  You forgot the smiley face again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phlip [mailto:phlip_cpp@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:15 PM
To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: [ruby-talk:27857] Re: Trolling ;)


James Britt (ruby-talk ML) wrote:

> Ruby in a Nutshell was announced on use.perl.org.
>
> The tongue-in-cheek heading says,
> "Of course, no Perl programmers like or are interested in anything that
> isn't Perl, so I'm sure no one will want this book, be interested in Ruby,
> care to read An Introduction to Ruby[link], or even remember this story
> two minutes after reading it. Right?"

Perl sucks.

--
Phlip

(Special note to the humor-challenged; review my brilliant, insightful
comments in the recent thread called "Ruby vs. Python: Decisions,
Decisions" before leaping to Perl's defense. The programming industry [and
the Unices] would not be where they are today without Perl.)