From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T02:37:41+09:00
Subject: Re: About Ruby

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Jakob Lenfers wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm new to Ruby and apart from wanting to learn ruby (and rails), I
| chose Ruby as a language I'll have to - mh, in lack of a better word -
| analyze this semester.

Welcome and have fun. :)

| Also I would like to get some general book about ruby. It would be best
| if it would include a chapter about Matz motivations and the focus of
| ruby. There are sure a lot of pages in the net about that, but a citable
| source would be nicer.

Something like O'Reilly's The Ruby Programming Language, co-authored by
Matz? That should be citable, and is more or less a primary source. ;)

(BTW: What are the requirements for citability in your case?)

I don't know if it contains a chapter about Matz's motivation, but I
think that Programming Ruby touches on that (it could function, together
with the O'Reilly book), as a more in depth documentation. And there's
of course the C source itself.

And maybe Matz' keynote at Rubyconf 2007 helps you out, too?
http://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/d2t1p8_keynote.html

| I hope my question fits in here, I couldn't find indication
| otherwise. In case it doesn't, pointer to a better location would be
| nice.

Heh, I think it fits just fine. :)

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