| I’ve started reading the 2nd edition of “The Ruby Way” by Hal Fulton.
So far it’s been good. I’ve been popping it open somewhat randomly so far, but plan to take a more structured look at it shortly. I enjoyed the overview of OO as applied to Ruby as well as the section on Rubyisms and idioms. This is a big book, and looks very comprehensive. I’m looking forward to working through it. One thing I have noticed… and I don’t know Hal so I’m not sure… is that there are comments regarding programming language issues that seem to indicate a lack of familiarity/awareness of Rubys grand-daddies: LISP & Smalltalk. Comments like “in more recent languages such as Java, memory is reclaimed…” Both LISP and Smalltalk had garbage collection. In fact that’s where the majority of GC research was done. This however is a minor quibble. This is a book about Ruby, and a good one at that. |
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