From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T21:56:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV] Pushed a new beta of PickAxe 3

On 3/29/08, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
> Dave Thomas wrote:
>  > I've just finished a first pass through the built-in library reference
>  > for the third edition of the PickAxe. Totting up the numbers, I see 6
>  > more classes and something like 200 new methods.
>
>
> Makes me wonder if Matz et al have reviewed Guy Steel's "Growing a Language"
>  1998 OOPSLA talk lately:
>
>   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415

Ahh, that video brings back memories.  As I recall I was sitting
somewhere near the camera.  I particularly loved the "person at work
who deals with marks of trade."

Those were the good old days, before Powerpoint (or at least laptops
and projectors) when we used to carry our talks as boxes of
transparencies (or foils as we used to call them at IBM).
-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/