From: billtj@... (Bill Tj)
Date: 2002-10-10T22:54:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Hi Mauricio, Gavin, Bulat,

Thanks for all the inputs.  I have seen the Wiki and it looks pretty
good.  I think I will wait for a while for the list to stabilize,
before making changes to the Wiki, as I prefer not to maintain two
similar documents.  (Probably once I get really familiar with the
Wiki, I will make it as the source; however, currently I am more
comfortable of editing an HTML document directly.)

Probably not everyone will agree, but I intend to keep the list as
minimal as possible, so that a person can finish reading it in
probably less than 15 minutes.  With that, as the title implies also,
the list is more about preventing errors than about optimization. 
Therefore, I have put some "extra" things under separate sub-heading
"Things That Are Good to Know :-)".

One question, if I just post the list to comp.lang.ruby, is it also
echoed to -talk, or is it the other way around?  (I don't subscribe to
-talk as I don't have big e-mail box.)

Regards,

Bill
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"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote in message news:<0f4b01c26ff2$8aa76470$526332d2@nosedog>...
> From: "Mauricio Fern�ndez" <batsman.geo@yahoo.com>

> > BTW, the list is available in the Wiki too
> > http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ThingsNewcomersShouldKnow
> > you might edit it if you like.
> >
> > [Bill, have you seen the Wiki or not? It's gonna save you time, really :-)]
> >
> > Regards,
> > [batsman]
> 
> The Wiki is good, but Bill is the maintainer for the newcomers' list, so he
> should make the changes.
> 
> Bill, just restating that I think you should post the list to -talk once a
> month so that it stays "on the radar" as far as newcomers are concerned.
> 
> Gavin