On Tue, 21 May 2002, Mike wrote:
> And I thought "I" was the one noted for speaking my mind.
> I assume I am in good company :-)
>
Me being me, I wouldn't say you're in "good" company. The problem
with speaking your mind, is that it's generally not recognized for the
content, but for the tone, and tone is ever one of those conversational
colours that never comes across right in black and white. People being
people, once the tone is lost, the content is generally not far behind it.
- billn
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:20:29PM +0700, Bill Nash wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Nick Estes wrote:
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> > learn Ruby.
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>
> I don't deny that Ruby may be a good alternative, but that's surely the
> worst possible recommendation one could muster. Not so much that you
> suggest Ruby, but that you do it without any quantification of *why* Ruby
> is a good alternative to Perl. You may as well slap an orange from a
> child's hand and tell him to play with fire instead, without explanation.
>
> - billn
>
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