From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-07-27T03:44:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Some basic Ruby questions

On Friday 26 July 2002 11:33 am, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > Why would you want to call external programs when Ruby does all
> > of that?
>
> Probably, like most people asking basic questions, he didn't know
> it did.

Of course. So how can Ruby answer these questions more quickly?

I rather like Perl's built-in FAQ answerer (though there's not nearly 
enough of a search built in):

$ perldoc -q day

answers:
       How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
       How can I find the Julian Day?
       How do I find yesterday's date?

though I couldn't think of anything that would make it spit out the 
answer to this particular question.

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