From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T01:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ettiquette question

Curt Hibbs wrote:

> I think it would be an excellent idea to have a weekly posting 
> (similar to Ruby Weekly News) that would contain annotated pointers to 
> Ruby Resources.

Let's keep it short.  The FAQ is daunting.  I don't think I've ever read 
it completely.  It's like the Constitution.  I might read it if somebody 
could scrawl it out on parchment for me and get the RubyCentral 
delegates to ratify.  (Why envisions his future palatial estate with a 
rotunda, bust of a nicely combed Matz, 23.1 carat Carmen Lucia gem, lock 
of son-shi's hair, FAQ under glass, etc.)

Chris should do this on his own though, don't you think?  I don't know 
of a Ruby tutorial out there which is as accessible as Chris' tutorial 
and it's worthless to put in a bunch of links in the message that may 
prove to just be distracting.  I think Daniel Carrera's tutorial is the 
nearest: <http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/>

Perhaps Chris could doll up his e-mail by highlighting a portion of the 
tutorial to expand upon, cite from, whatever.

_why