From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T06:39:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for [...] programmers


On 22 Mar 2006, at 00:22, 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?

:) Well, that was the Pickaxe for me, but you've already said you  
differ on that. ... The reason I say that, is I came from a c++  
background (I like to think I'm reasonably capable at it too). While  
I never felt that c++ gave an especially good way of describing  
anything much (and I think OO is pretty limited, on the whole), it  
was still very helpful to read the Pickaxe and find out just how much  
I'd been missing out on.

> All the best
>
> Doug