From: Christopher Sawtell Date: 2001-12-16T11:33:47+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28656] Re: A Review of "Ruby in a Nutshell" book On Saturday 15 December 2001 06:10, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > Hi, > > In message "[ruby-talk:28500] A Review of "Ruby in a Nutshell" book" > > on 01/12/14, Johan Holmberg writes: > |I could go on for quite a while describing similar defects. (I filled > |two A4 sheets with notes while reading through the book yesterday) > | > |The effect of all these things, is that I feel it is quite unpleasant > |to read the text, and I don't trust the content (especially the > |examples). > > Sorry for inconvenience. All is my fault. I guess I'm not qualified > as a writer. Could you possibly send me copies of your A4 sheets? Your humility is an example to everybody. Quite clearly Johan Holmberg has never written anything of any consequence himself, or he would know and understand that it is impossible for mere human beings to achieve perfection instantly. That is the privilege of the Deities. If you would care to accept some help with editing the English and general checking, I would be happy to do that. I might learn Ruby properly as a consequence. :-) You may care check-out some work I did some years ago:- ftp://ftp-svr.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/misc/sawtell_C.shar to get an idea of what I am able to do. This work has since percolated world-wide, and I am _still_ getting the occasional thank you. Sincerely etc., C.