From: "John Lam (DLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T11:21:26+09:00
Subject: Re: cygwin's Ruby

> From: John Joyce [mailto:dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com]
>
> Does that mean there will be any books / tutorials on using IronRuby
> + Silverlight coming soon? (hint hint nudge nudge)

While I would love to write a book on IronRuby, I feel that it's a bit premature to do so right now. What would I write that would add anything of value on the languages side over the many excellent Ruby books on the market today? On the .NET integration side of the house, I think that there may be something to say here around metaprogramming / DSL approaches to writing .NET apps, but it's way too soon to write a book like that without concrete experience.

Someday if I feel that I can't not write a book like that I'll fire up Word and start typing. But I have to ship a compiler first ... :)

-John