From: Alexei Broner <lahgyk@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T23:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: An introduction, in about 50 lines of Ruby.

You guys are no fun. I didn't even get "that's not really recursive, 
it's building an external variable.", much less a "Hello, welcome to the 
group."

Maybe I should go learn Python...

Alexei Broner wrote:
> Hi, I'm Lex. I've been Rubying for a few months now and can't get
> enough.
> 
> I'm new to the list, so I'll tell a little bit about myself. I'm 23
> years old and a high school dropout. I'm a self-taught programmer
> starting from the age of 10. I've learned 13 languages (not including
> markup languages) and my favorites (depending on the task) are Ruby,
> Scheme, JavaScript, Java, C, and assembly. I work as an enterprise Java
> developer and love it, but I have aspirations to work with AI and game
> development.
> 
> I'm a bit of a braggart and apologize for it. My arrogant tendencies
> recently led me to writing the attached program. I believe it is a
> suitable greeting for this list.
> 
> I recently made the mistake of comparing a Ruby "hello world" program to
> a Java "hello world" program while at work and it began an office war of
> the shortest hello world in various languages (from clipper to klingon).
> 
> Well after the artillery died down, I decided to flip the coin and write
> a long "Hello World". It's just obfuscated enough to not contain "hello
> world" anywhere in it, but should still be pretty easy to follow. My
> hope was that it would inspire my office mates to have to learn a little
> Ruby just to figure out how it worked, while demonstrating some of the
> neat features Ruby has to offer.
> 
> Thanks to everybody for a great list and a great language.

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