From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-02T00:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: pickaxe

Hi --

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> > I'll give you a hint.  See the document "Things Newcomers to Ruby Should Know"
> > (or similar - we've got to shorten that title!), recently posted to the list.
>
> Maybe I'm just being stupid today, but I couldn't find any reference to
> pickaxe in this document (even using 'grep').
>
> I'm under the vague impression that pickaxe is the book "Programming
> Ruby":
>
> http://165.193.123.250/book/index.html
>
> Though I really can't fanthom why it's called 'pickaxe' or how we are
> supposed to know that this is it.

It has a pickaxe on the cover (print version, at least).  Learning
this is one of the Ruby rites of passage :-)


David

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