From: Jesse Edelstein <jmedelstein@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T04:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby Programming Language

On Jan 30, 2008 11:44 AM, Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just got note from O'Reilly about The Ruby Programming Language
> (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178)
> by Matz and Flanagan.  This must have been a super-secret project as I
> can't find any references to it via Google.
>
> Looks good, but do I really need another RUby book?  9^)
>
> Cheers
>
>

Looks like a ground-up approach going over most of the language. I can
see that it'd complement a tutorial approach like the Pickaxe by
providing a little more detail over each component of Ruby. From the
previews, the writing looks pretty straightfoward, though it'd be nice
to see a little more from matz on the reasoning behind design choices.