A Rubyist's Dream

[Benjamin Stiglitz]

Hi, everyone. I had a dream last night that drove me to join the list
today.

A car whizzes up to the house, and before it even stops, Matz jumps out
and runs up to my door. I realize it's him, and as I do, he wishes me a
happy new year. Apparently he's greeting all the Rubyists! Then I
invite him in for a drink, and as I do...

...my alarm goes off.

Does this happen to all young Rubyists, or should I worry? <grin>

-Ben
(a.k.a stig)

 

[why the lucky stiff]

Hi, everyone. I had a dream last night that drove me to join the list
today.

A car whizzes up to the house, and before it even stops, Matz jumps out
and runs up to my door. I realize it's him, and as I do, he wishes me a
happy new year. Apparently he's greeting all the Rubyists! Then I
invite him in for a drink, and as I do...

That sounds about right, Ben. Early on, long ago, I had a dream that
Matz came over in his little painter's outfit and started to wallpaper
my house with lettuce. But I think my dream was influenced by the fact
that when I first met Matz he was holding salad tongs. I speak the
unimpeachable truth.

Just understand that Matz has powers beyond our realm. And he is able
to select his followers and drive vehicles within their thoughts.

Do you think it is any coincidence that Onigurama (Ruby's new Regexp
engine) translates as "ghost car"?

Welcome to the neither regions of coding.

_why

 

[Benjamin Stiglitz]

That sounds about right, Ben. Early on, long ago, I had a dream that

Matz came over in his little painter's outfit and started to wallpaper
my house with lettuce. But I think my dream was influenced by the fact
that when I first met Matz he was holding salad tongs. I speak the
unimpeachable truth.

Some how I expected a response like this from you, _why.

Do you think it is any coincidence that Onigurama (Ruby's new Regexp
engine) translates as "ghost car"?

Does this mean I get to brag to my coworkers that I dream about regular
expressions?

-Ben

 

[Belorion]

You know you're addicted to coding when ...

Does this mean I get to brag to my coworkers that I dream about regular
expressions?

-Ben

I found myself dreaming about Rails last night. To abstract to
describe, but it kept waking me up when my dream would hit a bug in
the Model/Controller interface.

 

[Jeffrey Moss]

I dream about server strings, whatever those are. You know you need a
vacation when you wake up in the middle of the night yelling "server
strings!"

-Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Belorion" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: A Rubyist's Dream

 

[Logan Capaldo]

No dreams about ruby yet, but I have had a couple of dreams in Forth.
Maybe I just haven't been obsessing over ruby enough lately. Either
that or forth is so weird it lends itself better to subconscious
interference with my sleep.

 

[Ghislain MARY]

Do you think it is any coincidence that Onigurama (Ruby's new Regexp

engine) translates as "ghost car"?

Isn't it Oniguruma instead? I haven't heard about it yet but that sounds
better to me

Ghislain

 

[Hal Fulton]

You know you're addicted to coding when ...




I found myself dreaming about Rails last night. To abstract to
describe, but it kept waking me up when my dream would hit a bug in
the Model/Controller interface.

In all seriousness, have you ever dreamed the exact location and cause
of a bug? I have on three occasions. Once I was on contract to IBM and
working very hard. I woke up thinking, "Man, I should put that on my
timesheet..."


Hal

 

[Hal Fulton]

Isn't it Oniguruma instead? I haven't heard about it yet but that sounds
better to me

I think that's right. "Guru" is a mnemonic for spelling it.

Hal

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

You know you're addicted to coding when ...


I found myself dreaming about Rails last night. To abstract to
describe, but it kept waking me up when my dream would hit a bug in
the Model/Controller interface.

That was breakpoint launching it's irb session. You want to disable
that before going to sleep.

Nick

 

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi,

In message "Re: A Rubyist's Dream"

|In all seriousness, have you ever dreamed the exact location and cause
|of a bug?

Often. Furthermore, sometimes I jumped up from the bed and turned on
my PC to find that the bug was already fixed by myself sometime ago.

matz.

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

Hi,

In message "Re: A Rubyist's Dream"

|In all seriousness, have you ever dreamed the exact location and cause
|of a bug?

Often. Furthermore, sometimes I jumped up from the bed and turned on
my PC to find that the bug was already fixed by myself sometime ago.

matz.

Wow. Matz even time-travels in his sleep!

Of course, it's obvious once you think about it- it's the only
rational explanation of why Ruby is so excellent.

Nick

 

[David Sletten]

Isn't it Oniguruma instead? I haven't heard about it yet but that sounds
better to me

Ghislain

"Oni" means demon/fiend/ogre (Also the player who's "it" in a game of tag)
"Kuruma" means car. This becomes "guruma" in the compound "Oniguruma".

David Sletten

 

[Bill Kelly]

"Oni" means demon/fiend/ogre (Also the player who's "it" in a game of tag)
"Kuruma" means car. This becomes "guruma" in the compound "Oniguruma".

Since http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/36756
I've thought it was "Demon Wheel"...

I hope so, I really love that name ... I was writing
a regex engine at the time (with some banal working title
like ReflEx).

When I heard the name Demon Wheel, it instantly resonated
with me as so perfectly encompassing (to borrow a friend's
words out-of-context) the "madness and majesty, ghastliness
and indescribable beauty" of both the internals, and the
raw romantic power of an engine like that.


=D


Anyway . . .


Happy Rubying,

Bill

 

[why the lucky stiff]

Since http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/36756
I've thought it was "Demon Wheel"...

Would that I could swallow up all of my vowelish improprieties here
throughout the years.

Look, guys. I have insider information saying that it's "ghost car" and
that's what I like!

Lots and lots of love,

_why

 

[David Sletten]

Would that I could swallow up all of my vowelish improprieties here
throughout the years.

Look, guys. I have insider information saying that it's "ghost car" and
that's what I like!

Lots and lots of love,

_why

I'll buy that. Another dictionary defines 'oni' as: devil, demon, ghost;
spirits of the dead; fiend; creditor; ...

On the other hand, 'kuruma' can also mean 'wheel'. So 'Demon Wheel' is
reasonable too...

David Sletten

 

[Mark Hubbart]

I found myself dreaming about Rails last night. To abstract to
describe, but it kept waking me up when my dream would hit a bug in
the Model/Controller interface.

I sometimes spend my mornings fixing bugs. An alarm rings, and I have
to fix the bug quick. I do this by quickly hitting a small button,
which only fixes the bug temporarily...

This has caused problems in the past.

cheers,
Mark