From: markusjais@...
Date: 2004-03-23T23:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II

Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> On Mar 23, 2004, at 1:40, Charles Hixson wrote:
> 
>> My thought would be the best approach would be, after the initial
>> language definitions and discussions, to take a series of common
>> tasks, and show how to do them.   A good addition would be a
>> cross-index of task and class, but that might be quite difficult, as
>> people describe the tasks so differently.
>>
> 
> I see that as the role of books such as The Ruby Way and the Developers
> Guide. The Pickaxe is really intended to be a guide to Ruby, The
> Language. We mention other major libraries briefly, but not in the kind
> of depth that other go into. Again, it's a question of space and
> pagecount.
> 
>> P.S.:  You seem to have settled on FOX as the display kit, so I don't
>> know if what I was suggesting is practical.  As usual, a discussion of
>> alternatives, and why you are choosing the direction you are choosing
>> is helpful.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure where that impression came from: as it stands right now
> I've actually removed the Tk chapter from the book. The Ruby GUI
> picture is frankly something os a mess, and I didn't want to go there.
> I'd welcome advice here.

hello Dave
I think it is ok to remove the GUI stuff.
one could write a whole or oven several books only about Ruby GUI.
so I'd rather see stuff expanded like performance, continuations
and other stuff.

markus


> 
>> P.P.S:  Is Ruby2 in the offing?  I seem to recall publishers as having
>> slow turn arounds...so perhaps you had better be covering that, though
>> whether as a "soon to appear" or as the standard version I don't know.
> 
> The publisher we're using has the fastest turnaround in the industry...
> :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> The Pragmatic Bookshelf