From: Clifford Heath <cjh-nospam@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T13:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendations (Ruby making my head swim)

Mike Rhodes wrote:
> ..."Object Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer) but
 > that seems like a lot to absorb

I have Meyer on the shelf here and although it *is* quite a bit to
absorb for a newbie, Meyer's terminology is fairly complete and
absolutely consistent. That's quite a breath of fresh air in the
notoriously muddy field of O-O, polluted as it is with misapplied
concepts and misused terminology from thousands of grubby little
experiments, of which C++ is the foremost.

Although I read Meyer over ten years ago, I still relate "new" O-O
terminology back to his. That said, he doesn't cover the important
terminology from functional programming, much of which would help
with your Ruby.

Clifford Heath.