From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-04-04T11:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Cultural Misinterpretations [was Re: Hard coded newline chara	cters]

> > Most of the open source projects I've looked in from time 
> to time tend
> > to have a more or less homogeneous community. To be honest it's the 
> > first time I have had any contact with japanese people 
> (even if it's 
> > only reading stuff they wrote). There's one thing that I 
> noticed though:
> > Their language is clipped, concise, abrupt to the point where an 
> > english native speaker would consider it rude. Most 
> non-native english 
> > speakers would be used to the american (or - even worse - 
> british way) 
> > of speaking which tends to add a bit more sauce to friendly (or 
> > authoritative) explanations.
> 
> And then there are the posts from Guy (Decoux), who uses no words and 
> only responds in Ruby code ;)
> 

I like Guy's posts. They make me think like ruby (hmm.. reminds me of the
Eckel's "Thinking in.." series.. I would love to hear a ruby counterpart.. )