From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2002-01-08T15:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby Way

"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote:
> In article <00e901c197f3$0d57f5c0$5d091b18@austin.rr.com>,
> Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>
> >> The UPS man just brought me my copy of "The Ruby Way" about half an
hour
> >> ago.  It looks great!  Even has topics on graph manipulation,
parametric
> >> classes, FXRuby, dRuby - and lots of other cool stuff.
> >>
> >> And I really like the coral on the cover ;-)
> >>
> >> Everybody here should go out and buy a copy.
> >
> >Thank you for that kind endorsement.
> >
> >Shall we christen it the Dendronephthya Book?  ;)
> >Maybe just Coral Book...
> >
>
> "The Coral Book" works for me, but it isn't any shorter than "The Ruby
> Way".

But "the coral book" fits "the x book" informal convention.

IMO, "the way book" has a nice minimalist Zen-style appeal, but I also like
"the coral book", which has the somewhat more customary 2-syllable keyword.

Conrad