From: Benoit Daloze Date: 2010-08-12T06:21:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby is in Grave Danger! On 11 August 2010 22:35, Gregory Brown wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I have received an ominous message from the future.  We should take > this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we > know them!  Decrypted future-message below: > > --- > > The evil #COBOTS have taken over the programming world and aim to rule > it with an iron fist. > > The #COBOTS started by capturing all of the world's rubies, sucking > the life force out of YARV, MRI, Rubinius, and even their former > enterprise ally JRuby. Soon after this initial attack on pleasant > coding, all dynamic languages fell to a similar fate. > > As their lust for CPU cycles deepened, the #COBOTS took away the > parentheses from Lispers in their ivory towers, and even shattered the > beloved curly braces of the mighty C hackers.  With all other > languages crushed under their robotic corporate might, the #COBOTS > seemingly had thrust the world into yet another dark age of COBOL > programming. > > That was, until the Ruby Resistance began to form.  Hiding beneath a > fallen code block, heroic and daring Matz was able to escape from the > initial strike. Taking life one object at a time, he began to rebuild > his community by teaching them the forgotten language of the elders. > Soon after, brave men and women of all ages began to re-learn what it > meant to be a Rubyist, and together, became the Ruby Resistance. > > The call to action is simple:  Commandeer as many evil #COBOTS as > possible, re-program them, and take back the world's rubies.  It is > the only way to ensure programmer happiness for ourselves and the > generations of hackers to come. Will you rise to the challenge? > > Sure ! Where can we find these #COBOTS ? :) I am impatient to $COBOTS.inject(some_ideas) { |to, clear| their :minds }.with the_awesome { |power| of Ruby } B.D. * Currently working on implementing this code's details