From: Gregory Brown on
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?

From: Ryan Davis on

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.

> ---
>
> 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?



From: Luis Lavena on
On Aug 11, 5:35 pm, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...(a)gmail.com> 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:
>
> ---
>
> 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?

--
Luis Lavena
From: Joseph E. Savard on
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.

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


> From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown(a)gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <ruby-talk(a)ruby-lang.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:35:57 +0900
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk(a)ruby-lang.org>
> Subject: Ruby is in Grave Danger!
>
> 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?
>


From: Gregory Brown on
On Aug 11, 4:42 pm, "Joseph E. Savard" <joseph.sav...(a)sabre-
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