From: Niko Schwarz <niko.schwarz@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T01:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby binary handling (was: The fastest language for binary handling?)

Bob wrote:

>> and then: was matz drunk when he decided to represent binary arrays as
>> strings?
> 
> I think there is a better way to get your point across.  ;)

Sure, and I sure didn't want to offend Matz.
Please note that this is an xpost, and that my original intention was not 
to address to matz but to discuss binary handling in general -- matz just 
'incidently' picked me up.

regards,

nick

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