Dave Thomas wrote:

# A first version of the book Programming Ruby is now available, both
# online and for download.
# 
# The online HTML can be viewed at
# 
#     http://www.rubycentral.com/book/index.html
# 
# The book may also be downloaded (as XML and HTML) from
# 
#     http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/book.html
# 
# The book is released under an Open Publication license, so you're
# free to make copies--see the file COPYING in the download for
# details.

Awesome! 

On behalf of the people of planet earth, much thanks to you, Andy, and 
AWL.

Is this another Ruby First (tm), relative to Perl, Python, and Java?

Conrad Schneiker
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