From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2001-12-15T02:30:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28527] Re: A Review of "Ruby in a Nutshell" book

Johan Holmberg wrote:

> I didn't want to write this, but I had to ....
>
> /Johan Holmberg

I hope you did something useful like fill in the errata form on O'Reilly.

I'm a slower reader than you (and possibly less observant) and have only
posted 5 so far.

It is foolish to expect perfection in the first edition. A book is a human
endeavour and like software gets better with each iteration. You will
note that Ruby is on version 1.7.* looking forward to 1.8.

If Matz had to design a language to the same standard as you expect
him to write books you would turn your nose up at it. 1.8! How many
revisions has that gone through.

Some people saw the promise in earlier versions of Ruby and overlooked
its faults.

A bit more respect for Matz is due than this.