From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2009-05-22T04:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: w00t! Party for Gregory!

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On May 20, 2009, Gregory Brown wrote:
>>> > On Wed, May 20, 2009, Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > So you have better designs compared to those who seek further conciseness in
>>> > a language.  If only those folks of poor ability could design so well as
>>> > you.
>>
>>> That's right.   I'm pretty awesome.   Maybe RubyTalk can throw a party
>>> in honor of me!
>>
>>
>> I say we do it.  We should all celebrate Greg's awesomeness.  Wherever you
>> are, take 5 minutes to party wildly and think of Greg.
>>
>
> ➙ cat party.rb
>
> class Party
>  @@styles = [
>    'Party, Greg, Party!!',
>    'Dance, Greg, Dance!!',
>    'Woot!!!',
>    'Wild Dancing Greg Party!',
>    '--< Chunky Bacon >--'
>  ]
>
>  def for_greg
>    puts @@styles.at(rand(@@styles.length))
>  end
>
>  def party( time )
>    start = Time.now
>    Thread.new {
>      loop {
>        self.for_greg
>        break if Time.now-start >= time
>      }
>    }
>  end
> end
>
>
> 300.times {
>  unless fork
>    Party.new.party(1)
>  end
> }
>
> Process.waitall
>
> puts %q(That's right. I'm pretty awesome. Maybe RubyTalk can throw a
> party in honor of me!)
>
>

Hmmm ... I just created an infinitely spawning script! Need an exit!
after the "Party.new.party(1)" line; otherwise each forked child will
drop through back into the 300.times loop and start the process all
over again.

<sigh>

My efforts at humor are wrought with bugs. More coffee is needed.

TwP