From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T16:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: C++ code into Ruby, I need it fast, no time for RTFM

Leslie Viljoen wrote:
>> > Though that one's for people of alternative brain.
>>
>> Um, what do you mean by *that*?  I have just one brain - am I old 
>> fashioned?
> 
> Alternative as in abnormal. I just mean that the book is highly
> strange, for people who appreciate strange. I really enjoyed it
> myself.
> 
> Ah the scarf eaters... so wistful.
> 
> 

I probably would have loved _why's book, except I was so impatient to 
learn ruby that I skipped over all the non-technical parts. It was 
pretty informative, but its strange beauty was lost on a student that 
pretty much wanted to learn Ruby in one night.