From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-23T20:57:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II


On Mar 22, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Folks:
>
>
> In Ruby 1.8, the library has grown astonishingly: I count almost 100 
> library modules and classes in lib/ alone. If we were to document 
> these in any kind of detail, the book would grow to 2000 pages, and we 
> wouldn't be done until 2008 :)
>

Personally, I never pull out the pickaxe as a reference.  I think its 
real strength (and you and Andy's core strength as a unit) is to help 
people understand the high level concepts that are important when 
learning a dynamic language like Ruby.  To me, the biggest bang for the 
buck would be for you to stay at that level, and leave API 
documentation to the ruby-doc folks (which could, in this open source 
community, theoretically be any/all of us).

Excellent (almost) news on the future of Pick Axe!

Chad