From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2002-12-09T08:08:25+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby Way

At 07:54 AM 12/9/2002 +0900, you wrote:

[ snip ]

>What I decided was:
>1. Everything is obvious to somebody.
>2. Nothing is obvious to everybody.
>3. I'm an increasingly poor judge about how the
>Ruby neophyte thinks anyway.
>4. Therefore, I'll err on the side of completeness.
>
>I.e., better too much information than not enough.
>
>There is an infinity of things you won't find in
>this book; and many of them cause people to say,
>"Why wasn't THIS included?" But while I couldn't
>cover all of the intermediate or advanced
>programming problems in the universe, I felt I
>could cover all the trivial ones. And so I did.
>
>Just a little justification after the fact. :)

No need to worry.  Ruby Way is generally the book I pick up when I'm 
looking for cookbook-style solutions.  I found it suitably organized for 
that purpose.  Haven't regretted purchasing it yet :-)


-Brian W


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