From: Larz <wbsurfver@...>
Date: 2009-01-09T13:34:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

On Dec 30 2008, 2:30 pm, Nicholas Wieland <nicholas.wiel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Il giorno 30/dic/08, alle ore 19:44, Robert Dober ha scritto:
>
> > <snip>
> >>> Il computer non è una macchina intelligente che aiuta le persone
> >>> stupide, anzi, è una macchina stupida che funziona solo nelle mani
> >>> delle persone intelligenti.
> >>> Computers are not smart to help stupid people, rather they are
> >>> stupid
> >>> and will work only if taken care of by smart people.
>
> >>> Umberto Eco
>
> >> I see that Abulafia is well known outside Italy as well :)
> >> I love "Il pendolo di Focault" as well, one of my favourites.
> > Actually all I could read was "Il Nome della Rosa" everything else,
> > well mi dispiaceva ;).
>
> Ah, too bad, that's a citation from "Il pendolo di Focault", probably
> his masterpiece.There's a part where the main character cracks an
> account (on a word processor that one of the characters named
> Abulafia, like the jewish philosopher of the mistic qabbalah) using
> social engineering.
> Try it if you have a chance.
>
>    ngw
>
> p.s. sorry for the OT
>
> --http://www.nofeed.org



 How did abulafia end up in the Ruby thread ? I read all kinds of
kabbalah books myself for many years, but the last few years I have
been pretty heavily influenced by Parmahansa Yogananda ..