From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-12-16T05:57:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_

In article <1134655968.140192.205720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Doug H <doug00@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'd recommend the exact opposite.  If you ignore the libraries and GUI
>toolkits, the book is virtually useless.  Most people are using ruby to
>develop _applications_, not to learn programming for programming's
>sake.
>

I'm not necessarily talking about 'learning programming for programming's 
sake' (though, personally I see nothing wrong with that and I hope to see a 
good bit of that in there :).  I'm talking about 
learning advanced Ruby programming techniques that will help you develop those 
applications/APIs/Frameworks that you want to develop.

Phil