From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T10:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Name Dropping

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:14:01 +0900, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> But if we mention him, we might also mention Jack Herrington, author of
> (the excellent) _Code Generation in Action_. Anecdotally, the publisher
> expressed reticence about using Ruby for the book since "people don't
> know it." But Jack said he would use Ruby or he wouldn't do the book.

I can confirm this, as I was one of several reviewers of the draft of
the book. I spoke with both the editor and the publisher about the
importance (at their insistence) of doing the examples in Ruby as
opposed to in Perl, because the Ruby reads better. I think that they
have a very strong book because of the Ruby use.

-austin
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