From: Jack Dempsey Date: 2001-12-17T10:40:32+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28724] Re: A Review of "Ruby in a Nutshell" book Matz, just wanted to thank you for a great language...in two days i've implemented a small script that i've wanted to do in perl or php for a while but never got around to it...i often find i need sample data for databases, but doing a bunch of inserts at the beginning to input the data is so boring...so i've written a script that does it automatically...if i get it to be somewhat robust and if people would find it useful i'll post it somewhere and we can all tinker with it... thanks again for your years of work and your wonderful attitude...things microsoft will never understand... Jack -----Original Message----- From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:08 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: [ruby-talk:28720] Re: A Review of "Ruby in a Nutshell" book Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:28683] Re: A Review of "Ruby in a Nutshell" book" on 01/12/16, Thomas Hurst writes: |Well, after Ruby I think we're entitled to expect a little more from |Matz than what a mere human would produce ;) Ah, you have to look at how many bugs I produced in Ruby and books. The problem is that it's harder to fix the book bugs. matz.