From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T15:48:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Confession: I never did ASM


On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:57 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> 1. I have never owned a copy of any of the camelid books. Then  
> again, my Perl code reads like "awk" converted to Perl 4, which is  
> exactly what it is. :)
Missing out, they're a fun read, even if you don't need to learn  
anything about Perl.
>

> 2. I tried to learn Ruby from AWDR and gave up. I got the Pickaxe a  
> week or so later. Too bad you can't learn *Rails* from an appendix  
> in the back of the Pickaxe. :)
>
Get that Rails book from Sitepoint, they're giving it away free as a  
pdf right now! It's gentle. Rails just takes a bit of doing to get it  
to start making sense. Lots of 'other people's' software is that way.  
Wait, my own software is that way...
Seriously, though, the Sitepoint book cuts through clearly. AWDR  
makes sense later as a reference book.