From: Torli Birnbauer <aipir@...>
Date: 2009-03-11T01:55:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting the contents of a file to a variable?

Oh, I do not think I am the one missing anything. I challenge you to 
first explain your sarcastic concoction "tmp$ cat >| x <<EOF" which I 
claim is an exhibitionist's exaggeration of "apparent" Unix/Perl - Ruby 
like gibberish. The point I was making was that a succinct Ruby1.9's way 
of using a Symbol class to_proc strategy, as Matthias showed us, is 
superior to anything else discussed here. You two, Robert and especially 
badboy, complained about using a block when a simpler, and by most from 
M$ emerging Ruby programmers better understood, spaghetti code exists.

If anybody should take seriously  what you, Robert and badboy, are 
saying regular expressions, and indeed Unix shell and all its cryptic, 
and powerful paraphernalia are pure garbage. And since today's mouse 
pushing computer "professionals" do not see Ruby until they loose their 
"secure" jobs in M$ dominated environments, it looks that such opinions 
as yours are a credible ones. The truth is, that those who write 
gibberish like: "tmp$ cat >| x <<EOF" are appealing to the ignorant 
public who can not discern a fake from a true argument, and most likely 
have not had a chance to rise above that ignorance themselves.

Now this argument has turned into pseudo serious technical discussion, 
which is only obfuscating the real issue here and indeed is missing a 
point.

Cheers, Torli
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