Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> Folks that are following the eXtreme Programming discussions may have
> seen some debate a while back about chapter 14 in the book XP
> Installed. Some people were complaining that the use of Smalltalk for
> writing the examples was confusing. Ron Jeffries, one of the book's
> authors, asked for alternatives.
> 
> Aleksand I independently produced almost identical pieces of code,
> so we decided to join forces and give Ron a combined answer. At the
> same time, Aleksproduced a wonderful XSL and Ruby-based system for
> annotating the code as it evolved.
> 
> For those that are interested, a draft is available at
> 
>    http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/articles/index.html
> 
> To keep it simple, we copied the structure of the original
> Smalltalk. It was amazing just how easy all of the Smalltalk concepts
> were to express in Ruby.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Dave

        I really enjoyed this article.  It was a pleasure to read.
Thanks for posting it.  I got a lot of pointers from it, since I've
only just gotten your book and spent the last two days reading
it and working on a project.

        I love XP, so seeing it and Ruby together is neat.

        Tom Corbin