From: Matt Mower <matt.mower@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T16:12:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Name Dropping

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:57:17 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

heh... it was reading this book that finally pushed me over the edge
into taking a proper look at Ruby...  Thank you :-)

M