From: Jakob Lenfers <jakob@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T03:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: About Ruby

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Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> writes:
> Jakob Lenfers wrote:

> | 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. :)

Thanks :)

> | 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. ;)

Damn, forgot to tell you that I had an eye on that already. But thanks
for reassuring me. :)

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

I'm not sure myself. I guess something more reliable than
wikipedia[1]. I guess a book is just fine, a more or less official site
and online documentation should do it too.

[1] Don't get me wrong, I love wikipedia, but you know the problems...

> 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

I'll look into that. It's in our library, but you can't borrow it. *grrr*

> of course the C source itself.

I guess (and hope) the source is too deep. :)

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

Quite funny at least. :) I'll watch it later, thanks for the pointer.

Jakob
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Lenfi is blogging: Lenfis bLog: <http://blog.jl42.de> (mostly german)

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