----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan F Lundin" <aflundi / mailgate.sandia.gov>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>;
<ruby-talk / helium.ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: A few newbie questions...


> * Lyle Johnson (lyle / users.sourceforge.net) [020814 13:03]:
> * Subject: Re: A few newbie questions...:
> > Bennett, Patrick wrote:
> >
> > > If you're getting started, the PickAxe book is definitely the
> > > best place to start (at least it was for me).
> >
> > Just to clarify (for Christopher): The "PickAxe Book" that people refer
> > to now and again is "Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.
> > Patrick is correct that this is a must-have for beginning Ruby
> > programmers (and non-beginners, for that matter ;)
>
> Speaking of the "PickAxe Book", how much is missing
> from the on-line version?  (I've noticed that a lot
> of chapter 18 is not there.)


? I hadn't noticed any major omissions.

It's not crippleware, in other words.

I *have* noticed some annoying anti-features: No page
numbers, much less links to them; and even more
importantly, the figures seem to be missing.

But as for huge chunks of text missing: I wasn't aware
of any, but I'll go look.

I'll be curious about what Dave says.

Hal