From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T05:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby style guidance (was: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II)

Hi --

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jim Weirich wrote:

> 
> David A. Black said:
> > I am reminded of my favorite (unfortunately anonymous) quotation from
> > RubyGarden:
> >
> >   I would like to evolve FROM Perl, Java and C++ rather than TO Perl,
> >   Java and C++.
> 
> David, I like that quote too ... but I always thought that it was
> attributed to _you_.  Perhaps my mind just put it in the category of
> "Things David would tend to say".

:-)  I've quoted it often, so you've probably seen it in proximity to
my name several times, but it wasn't from me originally.  I even once
tried to flush out the original author with a query on ruby-talk, but
got no response.


David

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David A. Black
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