From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T23:24:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Learn to Program, by Chris Pine


On Jun 13, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Tm Bo wrote:

> Thanks, donald. I don't know why I missed that before.
>
> --  
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
You will do well to make notes on File and read/write modes!
The basic implementation of this kind of thing is almost the same in  
many lanugages, Ruby's is no exception, the style of this comes  
straight from C .
You will see it in PHP too, and a host of other languages.. (all C's  
children and relatives.)
Some books fail to document this stuff well for beginners. they  
either don't want to go there yet, or they forget about it since they  
assume you know it from other languages.
Mr. Pine just isn't going there in his book. He's focusing on other  
subjects