Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @06:48AM from the sniff dept.

Colonel Panic writes "Why the lucky stiff has written one of the most unusual (and poignant) books about programming that I've ever encountered. The best description for it so far (seen on comp.lang.ruby) is that it's sort of like 'The Little Prince meets SICP'. However, it defies all attempts at description (at least in this small space), you've got to read it for yourself. Like SICP, the full text is available for free. This one is destined to become a classic - it will likely be known to future generations of jobless American computer scientists as 'The Fox Book.'"

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should have used the preview button by theaphila · 2004-02-18 12:47 · Score: 0, Redundant

regarding: "The one advantage that Ruby has over Smalltalk and Logo is that it's included with every copy of OS X. So is Perl, but please, please, please nobody teach children to program using Perl. It could doom us all!", I would like to say
That's even funnier than the emails I'm getting from the man who's causing me to smile those creepy "i'm thinking about a man" smiles at work these days.