From: Alan F Lundin <aflundi@...>
Date: 2002-08-15T06:38:23+09:00
Subject: Re: A few newbie questions...

* Lyle Johnson (lyle@users.sourceforge.net) [020814 13:03]:
* Subject: Re: A few newbie questions...:
> Bennett, Patrick wrote:
> 
> > If you're getting started, the PickAxe book is definitely the
> > best place to start (at least it was for me).
> 
> Just to clarify (for Christopher): The "PickAxe Book" that people refer 
> to now and again is "Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. 
> Patrick is correct that this is a must-have for beginning Ruby 
> programmers (and non-beginners, for that matter ;)

Speaking of the "PickAxe Book", how much is missing
from the on-line version?  (I've noticed that a lot
of chapter 18 is not there.)

--alan