From: William Grosso <wgrosso@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T00:08:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Booksales @Rubyconf?

Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
>> I'm a bit nervous about its debut, simply because my eyes were
>> opened with the first edition. Though I myself have made
>> multiple passes over each page, though it all has been pored
>> over by two (sometimes more) tech editors, though it has all
>> gone by the copyeditor and the development editor and reviewers
>> and probably two or three people I don't know about, there *still*
>> will be mistakes in it. I hate that.
> 
> Blame your cat.  He snuck in and changed things while you were asleep.
> 

Far worse than the mistakes are the clumsy bits. Right now, the
prose probably appears reasonably clean and polished. That's
mostly because, at this point, you're incapable of reading it.

Years after the fact, when you take the book off your shelves and
glance through it, you'll be stunned by how bad the exposition is
and how awkward it all feels.


Bill