From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T04:34:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?


On May 5, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:

> In article <c7b98v$4b7$1@orkan.itea.ntnu.no>,
> Kent Dahl  <kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
>> Phil Tomson wrote:
>>> Well I know I love Ruby (the programming language :).
>>>
>>> He seems to imply that the Ruby results are tainted because people 
>>> could
>>> be saying that they love Ruby the gem.
>>
>> ...now I know women like jewelry almost to the insane level we love 
>> the
>> language, but I hope he was thinking primarily of people writing to 
>> say
>> they love someone called Ruby. :)
>>
>
> Well, probably ;-)  But it could be either one.
>
> Couldn't the Python results also be tainted?  Someone might say they
> love their python (snake), I suppose.

It seems like most bad results could be filtered out by requiring 
another programming language to be mentioned, or the phrase 
"programming language", or some such. Making a more complex search, you 
would narrow the results.

--Mark