On Saturday 17 March 2001 20:40, Roy Smith wrote:
> After years of reading people on c.l.python interject comments about Ruby,
> I finally decided to see what it was all about, so I bought a copy of
> Programming Ruby this afternoon.
>
> And what do I read in the preface?  "...we're using it to format large
> parts of this book".  Well, gee, 20-odd years ago, when I first started
> reading about C, K&R were proud of the fact that they used their new
> language to write some tools to format their books!  Some things never
> change, I guess :-)

Or, some things are prophetic? :-)

Regards,

Kent Starr
elderburn / mindspring.com