On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:

> On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:
>
>> Since this brings us to three full years of weekly quizzes and my  
>> retirement as
>> quizmaster, I want to thank not only those who solved this week's  
>> problem but
>> anyone who ever solved a quiz.  If people hadn't supported the  
>> effort so well
>> these last three years, it never would have made it this far.  I  
>> also need to
>> give a huge thanks to those who contributed quizzes and summaries  
>> during the
>> run.  They carried me a good portion of the way and I'm eternally  
>> grateful for
>> that.
>>
>> Sincerely, thank you all.
>
> Thank _you_ so much.
>
> I was a late comer to Ruby Quiz. My first submission was Quiz 90.  
> And I didn't solve all that many quizzes after that one. Still I  
> always followed the submissions and read the summaries from Quiz 90  n. And I enjoyed and learned from each. I am particularly fond of  
> your summaries. They were always cogent and extremely well written  
> -- amazingly so, when one considers how little time you had to write  ach one.

Thanks for the high praise Morton.

> Now that you're retired <grin>, James, why don't you use some newly  vailable free time <another grin> to get out a second "Best of Ruby  uiz" book <serious>? Either an updated second edition, or a  
> separate second volume. I'd would really like to see this happen.  
> They were certainly enough great quizzes after the book came out to  ill another volume.

I may very well do that at some point.  I would like to and I agree  
with you about there being a lot of good material for it now.

However, for just a little while first, I would like to have a little  ore time for programming ;)