From: Jason Perkins <jperkins@...>
Date: 2006-03-18T12:07:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Hacking Guide Translation


On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Vincent Isambart wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce that I have translated in English the second
> chapter ("Objects") of the "Ruby Hacking Guide" by Minero AOKI. The
> Japanese name of the book is "Ruby kanzen soosu coodo kaisetsu" (that
> means "Ruby complete source code explanation"), but "Ruby Hacking
> Guide" was its working title and has more or less become its
> "official" English name.
>
> This book explains the internals of the ruby interpreter. And even if
> you do not care about how the interpreter works, I think it can help
> have a better understanding of Ruby and how to make extension
> libraries. To fully understand the content, you'll need to have a good
> knowledge of Ruby and C. And do not forget that Ruby is the language
> and ruby its implementation.

Vincent, this is fantastic. Thank you!

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