From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T02:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E03 - jamLang Evaluation Case Applied to Ruby

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

>> I do believe Programming Ruby is well worth the cover charge.  It 
>> answers for me every question I've ever seen you ask here, and I'm 
>> willing to bet it took me less time to read than it did for you to 
>> compose all those emails.  Just FYI.
> 
> I'm not intrested in books.
> 
> I'm intrested in providing an analysis / evaluation, which anyone can 
> follow without cost (except internet access).

The question is whether those evaluations will indeed be useful to the 
general public or more useful to yourself.

As far as I can see most of the content of it it is already available on 
the web through the Pickaxe 1 book and I think it is odd to turn that 
down just because you don't happen to get the figures with it.

And while I think it is nice that you are trying to understand this 
language I think you should start with the basics. You're already asking 
specific question about introspection when you have not yet understood 
the difference of "obj.method" in Ruby and in Python.

Please, start with the basics.

I know that that will take more time, but by this point you will likely 
agreed that Ruby *is* worth some time investment to learn it.

If you decide not to learn the basics then I think that your evaluations 
will not be worth much anyway.

Don't take this as an attack to you. I think this community is friendly 
and is not bothered by answering questions, but at some time it makes 
sense to examine the resources that are already available in public.

Thanks for your attention.