----- Original Message -----
From: Samantha Atkins <samantha / objectent.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:12799] Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: police warns you -- Perl is
dangerous!!


> Amos wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:21:30 +0900,
> > >>>>> Hal E Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> (hef) writes:
> >
> > hef> Todd, give Stephen a peanut-butter sandwich and a genuine Florida
> > hef> dimpled ballot. Stephen, give Todd a vegemite sandwich and a Men
> > hef> At Work CD.
> >
> > hef> Now shake hands, and return to coding in Ruby.
> >
> > What a wonderful programming language we have that is able to settle
> > international disputes.  I love it.  Perhaps Ruby should become the
> > universal language for mediation.  Good thing the pick-axe book is
> > now open source.
>
>
> Huh?  Since when is the book open source?  As far as I known it is only
> available commercially and on paper.  If it is Open Source pls point me
> to its location.
>

Ah, Samantha, you're in for a treat. Go to www.rubycentral.com and you'll
find the full content of the book...

There's also a search tool called ri (which I haven't used yet) but people
seem to like it...

Hal