Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Daniel Martin <martin / snowplow.org> wrote:
>> atbusbook / aol.com writes:
>>
>> > <smug lisp weenie giving standard lisp macro rant omitted>
>>
>> This appears to be the continuation of some conversation / flamewar
>> somewhere else.  Why bring this crud over here?  Is there some reason
>> that we should care?
>
> I've only recently subscribed to this list, after just sampling it for
> a while, and I've been wondering the same thing about the apparently
> endless discussion of the merits of C, C++, Ocaml, and Java
Whatever you opinions about any programming language are, Ruby is 
implemented in C at the moment, so C at least has *that* going for it! :) :)