From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T21:46:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking Contributions for O'Reilly's Ruby Cookbook

David A. Black wrote:
>
> I'd add that I was told at one point by the PLEAC Ruby maintainer (or
> one of the maintainers) that the goal was not to show the
> "peculiarities" of individual languages (such as, if I remember
> correctly, iterators in Ruby), but rather to show what the languages
> had in common, or words to that effect.  I ended up concluding that it
> was basically Perl being transliterated into many languages.
>

Yeah, that's of little concern to someone writing a fresh cookbook,
though.  The real question is: is it fair game to use the _problems_
that the Perl Cookbook addresses.  Of course you would create genuine
Ruby solutions rather than attempt a translation.

If it's legally acceptable to use the Perl Cookbook's questions, a
subset of them would make a great start towards a Ruby Cookbook.  All
that's required is the effort...

Gavin