From: Yohanes Santoso Date: 2006-01-20T02:00:07+09:00 Subject: Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes: > 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. ;-) How true, It took me sometimes learning to drive a machine of mine with such transmission. Now I'm much faster. YS. 1992 CBRF2 -- what? you're expecting a Ferrari?