From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2003-01-30T18:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Books -- A Question

Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote:
> And it glosses over most of the material. New Riders "XML and Perl" book
> looks into things a bit more, but has other problems. (2cm, for those
> who measure a book's quality by the width of its spine.)

There is however a need for a 'get you going' type of book if the 
language is to pick up. Deeply technical books are only of use to deeply 
technical programmers, and there are a lot less of those than we would 
like to think (about ourselves).

I actually prefer thin books, large often equals verbose. I was brought 
up on the likes of the K&R C manual rather than Teach Yourself C in 21 days.