From: spiralofhope <spiralofhope_rubyml@...>
Date: 2011-09-10T01:09:17+09:00
Subject: Re: posts on Unix systems programming

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:36:26 +0900
Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> ~~~
> # First ruby program
> puts "Hello world"
> ~~~

With syntax highlighting:

```ruby
# First ruby program
puts "Hello world"
```

I'm the type that would fork a repository, make such changes and send a
pull request.

If the author is bigoted against the web and its common uses, then as
long as someone else mirrors the original documents (wherever they
begin) somewhere convenient, then I would take that content and improve
its style.

Well, maybe not the code style.. my code style would probably generate
some hate.

puts( "zomg extra spaces!" )

-

My recommendation is to have things in stages like so:
1) Creation
2) Mirroring
3) Cleanup
4) Bundling

1 - The author's original, unaltered, source.  No stress placed on him
for formatting or delivery.

2 - Everyone interested takes a copy, mirrors it as they wish.

3 - Hopefully just one combined effort to "clean up" the text so it's
suitable to general readership - like a GUI browser.

4 - Bundling into various formats.  PDFs or other etext type stuff.
It's also easy to get text printed onto dead trees.


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