Hi!

At Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:32:41 +0900, Charles E. Thornton wrote:
> I ran across 'A Hackers Guide to Ruby' and despite the awful
> translation (By Machine!@?) it was enlighting.
> 
> So as a Newbie -- Does anyone have Human Translated Version of the
> Document. - It would be very helpful!

I don't know that guide but I suppose the original is in Japanese.
Learning some basics of the Japanese grammar can help a lot in
understanding machine-translations of technical documents.

This works because technical documents are written in a very simple
style using simple language, almost no figures of speech and -
especially when introducing a programming language - have context for
which (in an extended sense) a Rosetta stone is know to exist - the
programming language that is introduced can be used to run the example
code. In the case of compiled languages (be the target machine code,
assembler, or some p-code as it is the case with languages for the
.NET platform) the compiler even is a Rosetta stone in the original
sense of the word providing the same text in a formerly unknown
language and a known language.

I already read some Japanese documentations using Google's translation
service. I cannot say if the same works for you because I happen to be
quite linguaphile and even manage to learn Japanese vocbulary from
watching anime (΄υΛΎ (kibo) for example - which has quite a number of
English translations the most famous being 'hope'.


Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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