From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T01:03:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Whats new/fixed in Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> I have to be honest, Ruby isn't the most well-documented language,
> from a newbies point of view. The docs aren't as tutorial-like as,
> say, the PHP manual is. Of course, as other have already said, Ruby
> doesn't get documented by itself -- help is appreciated.
Considering Ruby's "youth" -- somewhere in the 1.8 - 1.9 range, compared
to the other scripting languages on my systems: TclTk (8.4.13), Perl
(5.8.8), PHP (5.1.4), Lua (5.0.2) and Python (2.4.3) -- I think Ruby is
exceptionally well documented. Of course, I'm far from a newbie. Between
Chris Pine's "Learn to Program" and the Pickaxe book (version one is
freely available!) I'd say the newbies have absolutely no excuses on the
documentation front.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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