From: John Trunek <jtrunek@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T05:02:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommened readings?

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
> What is the purpose of your paper? Is it comparitive? Or simply
> descriptive? And what level course is it?
> 
> "Programming Ruby, 2nd Edition" is a great book on the language. "The
> Ruby Way" is also great, and more of a cookbook type of book. It may
> offer more examples of control structures and ways of doing typical
> things a language is used for. Since you are interested in the
> language specifically, these are probably the only two books. The
> other Ruby books, while almost all good, focus more on task-orient
> rather then language-oriented aspects of programming in Ruby.

A little bit more about the purpose of the paper.  The paper is for my language 
design and theory course.  The purpose of the paper is to simply analyze a 
programming language and see how the various topics discussed in the course were 
implemented in a real language.  The paper is more of an overview of how the 
language was designed, rather than an in depth analysis.  I say this because the 
  professor gave us a guideline of 7-8 pages, and we need to address at least 4 
of the issues I mentioned earlier.