From: Mauro Cicio <mcix@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T08:08:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Indepth Ruby Book

"The Ruby Way" is an excellent book.
I think complements very well the "Programming Ruby: Pragmatic Guide"
AND is well written.
You are going to find there a few things you already know,
but always seen from a interesting perspective.

Mauro
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:03:42 +0900
"Zach Dennis" <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote:

> >Depends on how "in depth" you want !
> 
> I read the Programming Ruby: Pragmatic Guide and I liked it very much for my
> first Ruby book. It got me accustomed to the language. However I don't want
> my nextRuby book to be one of those books where I can skip the first 100 to
> 150 pages because it goes over how a for loop works etc...The other Ruby
> books out there may not even do this, but I have some books for other
> languages where I only get something useful out of the last few chapters.
> 
> >There are only 6 books on Ruby in English, so you may have to learn
> Japanese
> >to learn aout Ruby Internals.
> 
> Isn't Japanese one of thee hardest languages to learn? Maybe I could just
> look at the source code examples. =)
> 
> Zach
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