Niko Schwarz <niko.schwarz / gmx.net> writes: > > Dave (sighing as he watches sales of the book plummet) > > i once had a java book, a horrible one, it didnt really explain > words like "subclassing", it just assumed an intelligent reader > would know what that means, and the idea of object orientation was > explained in three lines there. well: all my classmates know bout > this book, cos i coursed so much about it, but where does your book > get its publicity from? you read it, do some exercises, laugh once > loudly and youre a programmer, and the time is just too short to > tell your friends; instead you tell them that *ruby* is a great > language. Niko: But Programming Ruby _is_ a really bad Java book. Does that help? Thanks for the kind words. Dave