From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-20T06:29:25+09:00
Subject: Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python?

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From: <dblack@superlink.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python?


> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
> > dblack@superlink.net wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, I've heard from some people off-list who explained it to me.
> > > Apparently Phlip is writing a book on TFUI -- and, less apparently to
> > > me (because I am acronymically challenged), TFUI is Test First User
> > > Interfaces.
> > >
> > > IIMSN (it all makes sense now :-)
> >
> > Shouldn't that have been IAMSN? Or were you just proving your point
about
> > being acronymically challenged?  ;-)
>
> Groan.  I wasn't trying to prove my point (it was a mistake), but I think
> I did prove my point :-)
>
> $ alias acronym="ruby -e 'puts ARGV[0].split.map {|s|
s[0].chr.upcase}.join' "
> $ acronym "Just to be on the safe side..."
> JTBOTSS

This reminds me of the NDS, the National Society for Dyslexics.

Hal

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