Ruby is in Grave Danger!
Gregory Brown
I have received an ominous message from the future. We should take
this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we
know them! Decrypted future-message below:
---
The evil #COBOTS have taken over the programming world and aim to rule
it with an iron fist.
The #COBOTS started by capturing all of the world's rubies, sucking
the life force out of YARV, MRI, Rubinius, and even their former
enterprise ally JRuby. Soon after this initial attack on pleasant
coding, all dynamic languages fell to a similar fate.
As their lust for CPU cycles deepened, the #COBOTS took away the
parentheses from Lispers in their ivory towers, and even shattered the
beloved curly braces of the mighty C hackers. With all other
languages crushed under their robotic corporate might, the #COBOTS
seemingly had thrust the world into yet another dark age of COBOL
programming.
That was, until the Ruby Resistance began to form. Hiding beneath a
fallen code block, heroic and daring Matz was able to escape from the
initial strike. Taking life one object at a time, he began to rebuild
his community by teaching them the forgotten language of the elders.
Soon after, brave men and women of all ages began to re-learn what it
meant to be a Rubyist, and together, became the Ruby Resistance.
The call to action is simple: Commandeer as many evil #COBOTS as
possible, re-program them, and take back the world's rubies. It is
the only way to ensure programmer happiness for ourselves and the
generations of hackers to come. Will you rise to the challenge?
Luis Lavena
I'm in!
As long I can use ScreenIO:
Which, btw, have better Windows support than Ruby...
Where is the CVS repository so I can checkout a copy of the #COBOTS?
--
Luis Lavena
Ryan Davis
On Aug 11, 2010, at 13:35 , Gregory Brown wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have received an ominous message from the future. We should take
> this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we
> know them! Decrypted future-message below:
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to get this message.
Joseph E. Savard
Ruby Take back?? Its not old enough to take back.. Is taking all it can
get and jumping into embedded worlds not yet seen.
Expanding, growing and engulfing is what it's been under with the siege of
Rails forging a bright and positive future.
So, don't worry you message is from an imposter, most like Duke from the
future. Now, his future is grim...:-)
Cheers,
j
Gregory Brown
holdings.com> wrote:
> LOL...
>
> Ruby Take back?? Its not old enough to take back.. Is taking all it can
> get and jumping into embedded worlds not yet seen.
Mind you, this message is from the FUTURE! We are working hard to
identify an exact date, more on that soon.
> Expanding, growing and engulfing is what it's been under with the siege of
> Rails forging a bright and positive future.
>
> So, don't worry you message is from an imposter, most like Duke from the
> future. Now, his future is grim...:-)
We have it on good authority that this message is legit. I know it
sounds crazy but I would not put my reputation on the line for such
silly gags!
-greg
Gregory Brown
> On Aug 11, 5:35 pm, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where is the CVS repository so I can checkout a copy of the #COBOTS?
As far as I know, the #COBOTS have also eliminated all version control
systems. Yet another reason we must band together and fight.
andrew mcelroy
And I suppose you are going to tell us that Jullian Assange from this
future you speak of?
All of a sudden insurance.aes256 makes a lot more sense. At 1.4 GB it
must be the smalltalk image.
Andrew McElroy
>
>
Gregory Brown
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Gregory Brown
> And I suppose you are going to tell us that Jullian Assange from this
> future you speak of?
> All of a sudden insurance.aes256 makes a lot more sense. At 1.4 GB it
> must be the smalltalk image.
I am unsure what, if any role Julian has in all of this. However, I
have heard rumors that discussions are happening using an old,
somewhat backwards live communication technology, hidden in plain
sight. I have not yet found it myself, but I imagine that if one
does, they will be able to gain a greater understanding of the
magnitude of this event.
-greg
Benoit Daloze
Sure !
Where can we find these #COBOTS ? :)
I am impatient to $COBOTS.inject(some_ideas) { |to, clear| their
:minds }.with the_awesome { |power| of Ruby }
B.D.
* Currently working on implementing this code's details
Gregory Brown
> On 11 August 2010 22:35, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where can we find these #COBOTS ? :)
I searched on twitter to no avail. We should look elsewhere, I
suppose. Somewhere ancient.
-greg
Gregory Brown
> Where can we find these #COBOTS ? :)
I searched on twitter to no avail. We should look elsewhere, I
suppose. Somewhere ancient.
-greg
Alex Stahl
Gregory Brown
> Sounds like an IRC channel.
Interesting thought! I dare not venture into their world myself. Can
someone investigate and report back?
-greg
Joel VanderWerf
> The evil #COBOTS have taken over the programming world and aim to rule
> it with an iron fist.
COllaborative roBOTS ???
[http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu/]
Gregory Brown
Sadly, I doubt that these robots are collaborative. They are COBOL
Robots. Pair programming was not popular in the past, so I doubt it
will be in the future.
Joseph E. Savard
I still think you need to be wary of Duke!
> From: Gregory Brown <gregory...@gmail.com>
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Reply-To: <ruby...@ruby-lang.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:50:20 +0900
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby...@ruby-lang.org>
Gregory Brown
holdings.com> wrote:
> OK Greg, you're your passion is to compelling.. Im in! :-)
>
> I still think you need to be wary of Duke!
No worries. I shall fear Duke Nukem... Forever.
-greg
Javier
#COBOTS on irc.freenode.net has mean bots that yell at you when you
try to say anything! Not cool, COBOTS. Not cool.
andrew mcelroy
I've seen this sort of "smoke screen-ery" before.
It went by a name which failed it to substantiate
and took up way too much mailing list space.
It was the only github project I've yet to see to have far more
written about it than actual executable code.
Please tell me this is all an elaborate PR stunt to roll out a better
Ruby interpreter.
Andrew McElroy
>>
>> -greg
>>
>
>
>
>
Gregory Brown
I wish it were. But I assure you, it is far more grave than that.
andrew mcelroy
> On 8/11/2010 3:29 PM, Alex Stahl wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like an IRC channel.
>
>
Or a Conference... I see what you did
>
>
Gregory Brown
Does right now really seem like a good idea to collect a large number
of Ruby programmers in a room for 'reprogramming?'. Not to me. We
must keep the Ruby Resistance underground.
Folks, I really wish that I was getting my huckster game on right
now. But there is no product to sell, there is no event to attend,
there is no product to buy. Only creepy messages from the future that
usually level-headed folks like myself would ignore. But I am not
ignoring them.
-greg
Walton Hoops
tehviking
lend your collective brainpower in the #COBOTS channel.
Walton Hoops
with me till COBOCOP says it's ok. Then he really got upset when I
threatened to kill COBOCOP.
Walton Hoops
programs... example try putting in:
COBOPERATOR1: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY "Hello World". STOP RUN.
(1 line)
My theory is that we can use this to change the date thus making COBOCOP
happy, but my attempts accidentally crashed COBOPERATOR1, and got me
banned by COBOLORD. No more play for me :-(
Come all... save Ruby from this menace!
Tony Arcieri
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Aaron Patterson <aa...@tenderlovemaking.com
> wrote:
> Huh. I got this same thing, but via snail mail
>
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I can't shake the feeling that _why is fucking
with us.
--
Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand
fwoeck
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have received an ominous message from the future. We should take
> this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we
> know them! Decrypted future-message below:
>
> ---
>
> it with an iron fist.
>
> the life force out of YARV, MRI, Rubinius, and even their former
> enterprise ally JRuby. Soon after this initial attack on pleasant
> coding, all dynamic languages fell to a similar fate.
>
> As their lust for CPU cycles deepened, the #COBOTS took away the
> parentheses from Lispers in their ivory towers, and even shattered the
> beloved curly braces of the mighty C hackers. With all other
> languages crushed under their robotic corporate might, the #COBOTS
> seemingly had thrust the world into yet another dark age of COBOL
> programming.
>
> That was, until the Ruby Resistance began to form. Hiding beneath a
> fallen code block, heroic and daring Matz was able to escape from the
> initial strike. Taking life one object at a time, he began to rebuild
> his community by teaching them the forgotten language of the elders.
> Soon after, brave men and women of all ages began to re-learn what it
> meant to be a Rubyist, and together, became the Ruby Resistance.
>
> The call to action is simple: Commandeer as many evil #COBOTS as
> possible, re-program them, and take back the world's rubies. It is
> the only way to ensure programmer happiness for ourselves and the
> generations of hackers to come. Will you rise to the challenge?
I removed all the parentheses keys from my keyboard and locked them in
a PO box. Whoever will read this thread in the future: You will find
parens, braces and brackets in box #1011 /you will know where to
look/!
-- Frank
R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have received an ominous message from the future. We should take
> this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we
> know them!
This is terrifying!
Maybe we should go back to Java (the New Age Cobol) to save our lives.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Benoit Daloze
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> I have received an ominous message from the future. We should take
>> this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we
>> know them!
>
> This is terrifying!
> Maybe we should go back to Java (the New Age Cobol) to save our lives.
> --
Never! I'd rather die !
B.D.
Rick DeNatale
And Oracle would sue us!
--
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick
Twitter: @RickDeNatale
WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
James
I hope it's _why. I miss that guy.
R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Benoit Daloze <ereg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> --
>>
>> Never! I'd rather die !
>
> And Oracle would sue us!
>
And Google would save us :(
Here's more details: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM