From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T05:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

Mark Hubbart <discord@mac.com> wrote:
> 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.


If the same search could be done within the language specific newsgroups:
comp.lang.xxx..  could give some more trustworthy results?


BTW: I love Ruby more than any other thing I have loved earlier.
I expect to extend my relationship with Ruby in the future, getting married,
having children.. etc.       Ruby is like Britney Spears.

--
Simon Strandgaard