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Re:Exactly, Ruby Isn't An Insurgency by michaelneale on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @06:50PM (#79892)
I didn't quite get that. Was he taking the piss out of Tim Bray for being older? No I don't find _why at all helpful, nor amusing. Some folk do though.
Re:Exactly, Ruby Isn't An Insurgency by lsb on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @07:11PM (#79901)
_why wrote the hpricot html parsers for ruby, as well as tryruby.org, which i showed my dad (who was impressed by it). some people swear in their code, some people write "chunky bacon".
Re:Exactly, Ruby Isn't An Insurgency by michaelneale on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @07:53PM (#79917)
> some people swear in their code, some people write "chunky bacon".

Now THAT makes the most sense to me ever. Now I get it. Yes we all like to do crazy things. I like bug tracker tickets to have cussing in them (makes for good release notes).