From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-20T01:41:46+09:00
Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice)

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, John Maclean wrote:

> Chaps,
>
> Ruby seems like a great language and the book's good too. However a novice
> like me won't be able to appreciate *.rb when there's soooo many examples of
> "there's more than one way to do it". I learn pretty quickly and even faster
> when I can understand a concept, test it and see that it works. How do you
> other novices feel about this?
>
> This is not a rant/flame/plug my book/some other language is better posting ;)

think of it as learning to drive a short throw six-speed transmission - harder
at first - so much faster once you've got it. ;-)

-a
-- 
strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning?
preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like
thunder?  -- milarepa