Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Stephens Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Matz never said Microsoft was the Devil Incarnate. (or did he?) Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 16:14:10 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <267f0e6b73bdfa961dbda489c97c181d@ruby-forum.com> <3f9811841b309bc9010c0a84ed85bf8b@ruby-forum.com> <2429f4a7-c967-4a64-8637-ed75f4e5a313@q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <03bd9fccf3fedba427f3c8295203e426@ruby-forum.com> <20110521171422.GA14414@guilt.hydra> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1306012488 75383 65.111.164.187 (21 May 2011 21:14:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 21:14:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20110521171422.GA14414@guilt.hydra> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 383578 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:4873 Chad Perrin wrote in post #1000098: > and frankly, you shouldn't have to explain why you're writing code > for something like this, unless it's actually relevant to the problem > you want help solving. Chad, if you ever want to learn anything,and my experience of you -like others before me - is you don't, learn this: it is always vital to understand why you are doing something. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.