From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2008-02-16T05:09:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Computer Science Problems

That book is terrible.  It should be titled "Data Structures and
Algorithms with Object Oriented Design Patterns in C++ or Java That
Happen to Be Written in Ruby".

It doesn't use any Ruby or functional idioms.  It looks like he paid a
minimum wage code monkey to translate the book into a lot of languages
(or used some automated means).

--Jeremy

On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:37 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:47:51AM +0900, James Gray wrote:
>  > >
>  > > A Ruby algorithms book would be really nice to have.  (I have a Perl
>  > > book like that I've used a fair bit.)
>  >
>  > I'd love to find a Ruby algorithms book, myself.
>
>  Interestingly, I just ran into this online book, _Data Structures and Algorithms
>  with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby_, at
>  http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/
>
>



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