On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:53:36AM +0900, James Britt wrote: > Warren Seltzer wrote: > >Here on the ruby-talk list we've all gone through the pickaxe book > > > Doubtful. There are newcomers on this list all the time, people who may > not even *know* of Programming Ruby, let around have read it. > > I don't want anyone on this list getting the impression that they may be > out of their league or in some way do not belong here. > > We're a varied lot, so it's hard to make generalizations on experience. > > Dear Nuby: Please speak up and ask lots of questions. I second that -- especially since, though I've gone through most of the electronic pickaxe, I haven't seen Pickaxe 2 yet, and I could probably stand to read what I have seen a few more times to absorb what's there. Saying we've all read Pickaxe and giving the impression we're all past that point now would make me feel a little on the slow-kid side, frankly. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.