# Another milestone for Ruby!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 6, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755 "2006-01-06T19:45:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755/1 "2006-01-06T19:45:42Z")

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From the Jifty home page, URL:http://jifty.org/view/HomePage:

```
Jifty is written in Perl. If you're familiar with Ruby, Perl might
feel like Ruby's quirky big brother.

```

You know you’ve arrived when people try to describe Perl by comparing  
it to you!

Cheers,

Jeremy H.

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755/2 "2006-01-06T20:24:50Z")

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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:42:59AM +0900, Jeremy H. wrote:

> > From the Jifty home page, URL:http://jifty.org/view/HomePage:
> 
> ```
> Jifty is written in Perl. If you're familiar with Ruby, Perl might
> feel like Ruby's quirky big brother.
> 
> ```
> 
> You know you’ve arrived when people try to describe Perl by comparing  
> it to you!

Holy crap. No kidding.

That’s a surprisingly appropriate random signature block I’ve got this  
time, too.

–  
Chad P. [CCD CopyWrite | [http://ccd.apotheon.org](http://ccd.apotheon.org) ]

print substr(“Just another Perl hacker”, 0, -2);

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755/3 "2006-01-11T18:50:53Z")

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Hi!

At Sat, 7 Jan 2006 04:33:42 +0900, Christian N. wrote:

> Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

This corresponds to “Do not trust Perl mongers - even if they say your  
programming language is superior to Perl.” while the right description  
were “Do not trust Perl mongers - ESPECIALLY if they say your  
programming language is superior to Perl.”

Besides that: We have enough holy wars these days. Christians/Muslims,  
Jews/Muslims, Debian/,  
Sustainable Development/Maximization of Profit, Freedom/Security, …

Where my concept of “holy war” is that all sides involved think they  
have the one and only answer to a question.

Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755/4 "2006-01-06T20:33:52Z")

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Jeremy H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

> From the Jifty home page, URL:http://jifty.org/view/HomePage:
> 
> ```
> Jifty is written in Perl. If you're familiar with Ruby, Perl might
> feel like Ruby's quirky big brother.
> 
> ```
> 
> You know you’ve arrived when people try to describe Perl by comparing  
> it to you!

Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

05jan2006 #perl6  
15:05 My plan worked perfectly. the perl as ruby’s quirky brother  
comment was intended to get ruby people to laugh  
15:05 #  
[http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hehMmmnnPerlPeople.html](http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hehMmmnnPerlPeople.html)  
15:05 obra++ # evil genius

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**Author:** ![jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jeremyheiler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremyheiler)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-milestone-for-ruby/51755/5 "2006-01-11T19:30:36Z")

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Jeremy H. wrote:

> From the Jifty home page, URL:http://jifty.org/view/HomePage:
> 
> ```
> Jifty is written in Perl. If you're familiar with Ruby, Perl might
> feel like Ruby's quirky big brother.
> 
> ```
> 
> You know you’ve arrived when people try to describe Perl by comparing  
> it to you!

In Soviet Russia, Perl is compared to you!