From: Jack Herrington <jack_d_herrington@...>
Date: 2002-06-20T00:36:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Japanese Ruby books

On 6/19/02 2:19 AM, "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> |1) What is a good Japanese book on Ruby?
> 
> Define "good" ;-)  We have at least 20 Ruby books here.

Anything written by you. ;-)

> For your collection, I recommend the Japanese pocket reference from
> O'Reilly Japan.  It'small, cheap (1000 JPY), and royalty goes to me.

Great!

Though wouldn't you have a royalty on "The Ruby Programming Language" as
well?

> |2) I have relatives living in Japan, where could I tell them to go to find
> |the book in or around Tokyo?
> 
> I saw two shelves filled with Ruby books at the bookstore in Akihabara
> Tokyo, today (I guess it's the same store where Michael visited).
> Your relative can get them at any reasonable sized bookstore, I think.

Cool. Well, they will be getting up that way, so I will direct them to
Roppongi or Akihabara.