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Delivered-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:57:39 +0900 Posted: 15 Dec 2005 06:52:49 -0800 From: "Gene Tani" Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_ To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) Message-Id: <1134658369.330938.20530@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1134601217.746672.19760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1134601217.746672.19760@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-ML-Name: ruby-talk X-Mail-Count: 41 X-MLServer: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)]; post only (only members can post) X-ML-Info: If you have a question, send e-mail with the body "help" (without quotes) to the address ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org; help= User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-Original-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Path: noris.net!news.osn.de!diablo1-ffm.news.osn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!216.239.36.134.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.120.89.234 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1134658374 7813 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2005 14:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:52:54 +0000 (UTC) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.120.89.234; posting-account=8XOipQ0AAACMJzugZ48kZ-9FEy8D8Ggl X-From-Usenet: see Received: header above. X-rubymirror: yes X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on beryllium.ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-14.1 required=7.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BLARS00, BLARS_SPAM00,CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,QENCPTR1, RCVDFRMLOCALIP,RCVD_IN_BLARS,RCVD_IN_BLARS_SPAM autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Precedence: bulk Lines: 23 List-Id: ruby-talk.ruby-lang.org List-Software: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)] List-Post: List-Owner: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, all. > > Thought I might as well announce this "officially" as many people > know it already. > > The ink is dry on the contract, and I am working on a second edition > of _The Ruby Way_. Expect to see it second quarter of 2006. > > To summarize: About 100 pages deleted, about 250 pages added. > Updated from 1.6.8 to 1.8.4 (or thereabout). > "100 pages deleted": does this mean Rb vs. perl/python sections are expendable? I can understand, these entail a *lot* of research, & recently there's been an explosion of R vs. p/p/java/smalltalk/lisp blogs which can be collected on 'Ruby eye for python guy' or some wiki. The part of Way r.1 that's most valuable to me today is the "Things to remember" list on pages 45+