From: Jack Herrington <jack_d_herrington@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T16:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: New Ruby book

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 08:16 PM, Richard Kilmer wrote:

> This is a great book for the community and will hopefully serve as a 
> model for others to write about using Ruby in the development 
> process...

I certainly hope so. Ruby is an excellent language for teaching applied 
computer science topics, like code generation. It's easy to read and 
understand. It's executable pseudo-code.

If there is one thing to learn from Java it's that people like to write 
in the language that they learn in. So if we move beyond the 
fundamentals and show Ruby applied to solving real world issues, then 
when people learn that way they will start using Ruby on a routine 
basis.

-Jack Herrington
  http://www.codegeneration.net
  Author of "Code Generation in Action" (Manning, July 2003)