From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2010-12-08T14:12:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby book

It's interesting. Programming ruby was one of the first english ruby
books and doesn't fall into the ruby (after rails popularity) money
grab.. My diatribe was not specifically with that book. Though I do
find it to be a bit redundant now that we have Matz' book.

Also the Ruby language is unique enough that it shouldn't be grokked
purely from a reference manual style book. There are deeper concepts
and paradigm shifts in ruby that go beyond your basic object oriented
and functional languages.

I am also not alone with my opinion:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/bookstore/

Of course the first edition is online for the OPS review:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

I still stand by my suggestions. Both TWGR and MR deal purely on
paradigm. Everything else seems like learning C from a book that
avoids showing your pointers or even worse never gets into data
structures.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM, James Edward Gray II
<james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Stu wrote:
>
>> The rest are crap or so called cookbooks created for a money grab a
>> couple of years ago.
>
> I definitely do not agree.  I love Programming Ruby and many others.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>