From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T06:19:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27860] Re: Trolling ;)

class Vacuum

end

suck = Vacuum.new

So it appears that ruby can suck also.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:15 AM
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.)
>