Ruby is in Grave Danger!

[Gregory Brown]

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:

---

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?

 

[Ryan Davis]

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.

 

[Luis Lavena]

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:

---

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?

I'm in!

As long I can use ScreenIO:

http://www.screenio.com/

Which, btw, have better Windows support than Ruby...

Where is the CVS repository so I can checkout a copy of the #COBOTS?

 

[Gregory Brown]

On Aug 11, 5:35 pm, Gregory Brown <[email protected]> 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.

 

[Benoit Daloze]

Dear Friends,

I have received an ominous message from the future. =A0We should take
this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we
know them! =A0Decrypted 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. =A0With 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. =A0Hiding 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: =A0Commandeer as many evil #COBOTS as
possible, re-program them, and take back the world's rubies. =A0It is
the only way to ensure programmer happiness for ourselves and the
generations of hackers to come. Will you rise to the challenge?

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 <[email protected]> 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]

On 11 August 2010 22:35, Gregory Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

Where can we find these #COBOTS ?

I searched on twitter to no avail. We should look elsewhere, I
suppose. Somewhere ancient.

-greg

 

[Alex Stahl]

Sounds like an IRC channel.

I searched on twitter to no avail. We should look elsewhere, I
suppose. Somewhere ancient.

-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]

Sounds like an IRC channel.

Interesting thought! I dare not venture into their world myself. Can
someone investigate and report back?

-greg

 

[Walton Hoops]

Sounds like an IRC channel.

Or a BBS

 

[andrew mcelroy]

Sounds like an IRC channel.

Shall I mention the unmentionables?

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

 

[Gregory Brown]

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/]

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.

 

[andrew mcelroy]

Or a BBS

Or a Conference... I see what you did

 

[Javier]

COllaborative roBOTS ???
[http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu/]

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.

#COBOTS on irc.freenode.net has mean bots that yell at you when you
try to say anything! Not cool, COBOTS. Not cool.

 

[Gregory Brown]

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.

I wish it were. But I assure you, it is far more grave than that.

 

[Gregory Brown]

Or  a Conference... I see what you did

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

 

[tehviking]

Whatever it is, it's not responding to my apt-get command. You should
lend your collective brainpower in the #COBOTS channel.

 

[Walton Hoops]

Gregory Brown wrote:

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/]

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.

#COBOTS on irc.freenode.net has mean bots that yell at you when you
try to say anything! Not cool, COBOTS. Not cool.

Indeed. COBOPERATOR1 liked my COBOL program, but said he can't play
with me till COBOCOP says it's ok. Then he really got upset when I
threatened to kill COBOCOP.

 

[Walton Hoops]

Gregory Brown wrote:


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/]


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.

#COBOTS on irc.freenode.net has mean bots that yell at you when you
try to say anything! Not cool, COBOTS. Not cool.

Indeed. COBOPERATOR1 liked my COBOL program, but said he can't play
with me till COBOCOP says it's ok. Then he really got upset when I
threatened to kill COBOCOP.

Well, here's what I can tell you... COBOPERATOR1 will take full COBOL
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!