From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-04-26T22:59:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Has anyone read this book?

Laurent Julliard wrote:
> Yesterday I cam across a Web page mentioning this book on "Data 
> Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby" 
> by Bruno R. Preiss.
> 
> http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/
> 
> I'd like to know if anyone has read this book with care and has an 
> opinion about it? I spend an hour or so on it and was under the 
> impression that the content was good but that the source code of the 
> examples look a bit too Java-ish.
> 
> Note: The same book for JAVA and C++ was published on paper by Wiley.
> 
> Thanks for you comments.
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 

This comes up fairly often on the list. I can't say I've read *any* 
version of it in depth, but there are better books available on similar 
subjects in just about any (programming) language you can name.

For object-oriented design patterns in Ruby, your best bet is Russ 
Olsen's _Design Patterns in Ruby_. I don't know if there's a good book 
on data structures and algorithms in Ruby, though. Data structures and 
algorithms are often explored in a language-independent manner, and 
often using the "natural" recursive formulations. Translation to 
specific programming languages is left as "an exercise for the student." :)