For some context, it looks like this might be the original message that started all of this mess... I'm not a Ruby person, but I thought it would be interesting

For some context, it looks like this might be the original message that started all of this mess... I'm not a Ruby person, but I thought it would be interesting to actually go back and follow the trail of what happened from the original mailing list messages (as opposed to what someone wrote on Twitter). The original message: >Another example - perhaps somebody could fix that (many errors have that source!) >Date.today >Date.today +1 # no error, but wrong result! ># Maybe this has been written for women, having calculated their age ;) [1] Thankfully, it looks like many of the replies just ignored the comment. One helpfully added: >(btw: please don't make sexist comments, it's discouraging to many people.) [2] Others took it a bit further: >No. Knock that bullshit off. [3] >You're in the wrong here. Take the loss, own up to it, and do better next time. [4] And somewhat predictably, things devolved from there... > What's next? Don't make enterprise java jokes / comments, it's discouraging to many people. [5] [1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/441396 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... [2] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/441399 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... [3] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/441419 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... [4] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/441408 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... [5] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/441410 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...