From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2000-10-31T00:10:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5944] Re: Sorry, What is Ruby Book

Dave Thomas wrote:
> There are two English-language Ruby books due out:
> 
> 1.  Programming Ruby  (Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201710897)
>     is due out next week

I ran of to the bookstore on campus, and asked when it would show up.

Now, Amazon says shipping date "13 October", while some other website
that the clerks at the bookstore trust alot more(I failed to grab the
URL), grimly stated 31. JANUARY 2001!

First I thought sadly: "my gawd, are we Norwegians really that remote?" 

Then I figured: 
	31.Jan => 31.01, 
	13.Oct => 13.10
(Big-endian/Little-endian in decimals???)

Finally I sadly thought to myself: Maybe a date conversion error will
delay the arrival of the book at the bookstore for months!

So is this obscenely late arrival so improbable that I'm not making an
ass of myself if I start lecturing about the probability of conversion
errors to the lady in the bookstore?


> The
> first is by a pair of reprobates who laughingly refer to themselves as
> programmers.

Blimey! And I've gone and requested that the library at university take
in some copies. They'll have my head! ;-)

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