From: Jason Perkins <jperkins@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T09:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for [...] programmers


On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Doug Bromley wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've come across an online book concerning Ruby for Perl  
> programmers but
> I've yet to find any for other languages.
>
> The Pick Axe book is a little to slow and simplistic telling far to  
> many of
> the core fundamentals of programming OO in general.
>
> I'd like a book that gives more of a conversion from one language  
> set to
> another.  Pointing out idioms and syntactic differences.
>
> A programmers Ruby guide/tutorial.
>
> Does anyone know of anything that may help me in this?

You may want to give Hal Fulton's, "The Ruby Way," a try. More  
advanced material and includes chapters on moving to Ruby from Perl  
and Python.

HTH,

--
Jason Perkins
jperkins@sneer.org

"The key to performance is elegance, not
  battalions of special cases."
  - Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy