From: Zach Dennis Date: 2004-01-15T03:25:13+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.1 windows installer There is a PickAxe book out? I'll buy it =) I love real book reading rather then online book reading. Zach -----Original Message----- From: Ara.T.Howard [mailto:ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:07 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.1 windows installer On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:41:19 +0900 > From: Mauricio Fern�ndez > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby > Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.1 windows installer > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:38PM +0900, Alan Davies wrote: > > >Since the first edition of the Pickaxe book didn't exactly fly off the > > >shelves (that's my understanding anyway) you can imagine that AW would > > > > Maybe if you don't make the new version available online, then more > > people will buy it? I for one can hold my hand up in shame and say that > > I haven't bought the existing one, because the ruby installer comes with > > an electronic version of it. > > OTOH... > I bought it *thanks* to the web version; had it not existed I'd probably > have ended up using Python :P I don't know if the the decision to > distribute the Pickaxe for free made sense economically (probably not), > but it certainly has done a lot for the expansion of Ruby, so we cannot > but thank the authors. ditto. i bought two copies and gave them away - to spread the word. both copies have moved on to co-workers, and the generated interest lead me to teach a little ruby 101 class to more of them. i have never done that with any other books/languages and the graciousness of the pickaxe authors no doubt contributed to that reaction in me. i guess kindness is contagious. -a -- ATTN: please update your address books with address below! ============================================================================ === | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | ADDRESS :: E/GC2 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328 | STP :: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/ | NGDC :: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ | NESDIS :: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ | NOAA :: http://www.noaa.gov/ | US DOC :: http://www.commerce.gov/ | | The difference between art and science is that science is what we | understand well enough to explain to a computer. | Art is everything else. | -- Donald Knuth, "Discover" | | /bin/sh -c 'for l in ruby perl;do $l -e "print \"\x3a\x2d\x29\x0a\"";done' ============================================================================ ===