From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-22T10:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly

Adelle Hartley wrote:
> When I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting a funny list.
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> Adelle.
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Yeah, me too ... in fact, I was all set to create a couple ...

aw shucks ... why not?

Top Ten Rejected Ruby Book Ideas

10. Ruby for Forth Programmers
9.  Duck Recipes
8.  The Chunky Bacon Cookbook
7.  Premature Optimization for Ruby
6.  Ruby Germs
5.  Software Engineering Processes -- How to Take the Fun out of Ruby 
Programming
4.  The Sound of One Duck Typing
3.  Building a Static Web Site With Rails in Three Weeks
2.  Inside The Commodore 64 Ruby Compiler

and of course, the number one rejected Ruby book idea:

1.  Why Perl, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Pike, Lua, Forth, COBOL, APL, Lisp, 
PL/I and Even Macro Assembler are *Way* Better Than Ruby