From: Mushfeq Khan <mushfeq.khan@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T13:01:29+09:00
Subject: Re: smalltalk resources for ruby hackers?

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I've read this book and can recommend it highly. I'm a little skeptical of
'best practices' books, but this one stands apart. I especially like the
fact that he has no qualms about giving contradictory pieces of advice --
one of the best passages in the book goes something like "Now I know I told
you that direct variable access is good, but here I'm telling you the
opposite - just ignore that other crazy bastard..."

This is what a best practice book should be.

Mushfeq.

On 12/7/06, Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/5/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been coding in Ruby almost exclusively for about six months, and
> > playing with advanced features. My background is a little Ruby, a
> > little Python, a little Java, and a ton of Perl. Any advice on
> > learning Smalltalk, going from Ruby?
>
> The SmallTalk Best Practices by Beck book gets high praise all over
> the place, even from Ruby or Java programmers who aren't planning on
> learning Smalltalk.  I've wanted to buy it for a long time but the $60
> price has kept on the wishlist for a long time...
>
> amazon link:
> http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/dp/013476904X
>
> - rob
>
>

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