From: surrender_it@... (gabriele renzi @ google)
Date: 2004-02-18T19:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, Chapters 1 to 3

why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote in message news:<40329068.7060701@whytheluckystiff.net>...


> >how about translations? :)
> >
> >my dutch really does suck but i'd just love to get my 
> >cousins speaking ruby as i'm pretty fluent in that :)
> >
> Calm down.  I want to help everyone's cousins.  Let's see what we can do.
> 
> I have not an whim of idea as to how we could get this book translated.  
> Especially considering that I am constantly revising and rephrasing.  In 
> addition, I intend to change flow based on audience reaction.  I fear 
> that embarking on translation too soon will either (a) inhibit the 
> flexibility of revisions or (b) drive the translators to harpoon 
> theyselves, leaving behind them a smattering of ancient (poignant) 
> translations.  Yeh?


no time to get that quick. Go on writing. when you feel like it, 
show us the code (possibly in little chunks). Put it on a versioning
system somewhere. And forget about translators.
The bsd handbook is handled much like this and, somehow, it works :)

BTW, in my first mesage I forget to say:
I would *adore* this if we could have some system to eval/print  the
various statements in text itself. If you ever looked at the
VisualWorks intro/tutorial you know what I mean.