From: Seebs Date: 2010-04-02T01:55:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Playing Games with "Ruids" On 2010-04-01, thunk wrote: > bottom.bottom.bottom line... Is that you aren't going to tell us what you're doing. > With respect to the documentation that _why produced for shoes, I > really just wanted "simple definitions" and he was giving me > cartoons. Two major differences: 1. He had working code that could be used, which made it possible for people who were curious to mess with it. 2. The cartoons and such were a very useful way of communicating some things, but useful ONLY once you had seen the "simple definitions". Back in the day, the first time someone pointed me at the poigniant guide, when I had no other information about Ruby, I spent about five minutes on it and concluded that this was some kind of crazy empty fad without any substance, because the best thing people could point me at on it was only marginally lucid. Later, once I'd gotten pointed at a basic summary of the approximate general area of human endeavor in which Ruby existed, I found the poigniant guide quite enlightening. That kind of communication works ONLY when you have first given people a ballpark feel for what kind of thing you're talking about. Without that initial ranging information, it's largely useless. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!