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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by ojii on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:20AM (#7277632)
Ruby is the subject in that sentence, not sure why gtranslate injects an "I". I'd translate it as "Ruby is scary, isn't it?"
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by iterion1 on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:54AM (#7277850)
Could also be 'surprising'. With the context of the sentence before it is basically, "I thought this would be hard to write. Ruby is surprising."

Also, the author is a contributor to ruby on github, so I doubt he is negative towards the language.

http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E6%81%90%E3%82%8D%E3%81%97%E3%81...

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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by ojii on Friday February 21, 2014 @12:28PM (#7278069)
Yes it's one of those "funny" words in Japanese that is highly context sensitive, so you're probably right.
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Re:Radiation-hardened quine by minikomi on Friday February 21, 2014 @09:12PM (#7280694)
Yeah.. 恐ろしい is kind of a "Wondrous and terrifying" blend
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