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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 09:29:45 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
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On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:02:23 -0700
Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:
> Ruby has a lot of followers, and I am trying to get excited about it, but
> it has succumbed to the same special-characters-as-syntax disease that
> killed Perl.  Much Ruby code is just unreadable.

What?  The recent Perl flame war wasn't enough entertainment for
you?  ;-)

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