Programming Ruby Makes You Blind
November 20th, 2005
The other evening I was writing code to rebuild “Find Coltrane” with Ruby on Rails instead of PHP. Before I went to bed I read something from “The Pickaxe Book” and then set it on my nightstand.
In the morning, I discovered that all 832 pages had fallen off the nightstand and landed on my glasses (also left on the nightstand) effectively rendering me sightless.
If you are considering learning a programming language, please be aware of the possible consequences to your health and choose one that has brief, thin, how-to manuals.
December 20th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
That really made me laugh — pretty funny.
Looking at my books, though, I don’t know what language meets your requirement. _Learning Perl_ wouldn’t crush your glasses, but the Camel certainly would….