Comments on: Beginning Ruby: Some Serious Praise http://wordsfornerds.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/beginning-ruby-some-serious-praise/ books, editing, information, and further nerdiness Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:08:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Peter Cooper http://wordsfornerds.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/beginning-ruby-some-serious-praise/#comment-52 Peter Cooper Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:43:31 +0000 http://wordsfornerds.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-52 And I will accept that praise! Haha, sorry, but many thanks for that. It's really appreciated. I wrote the book from the same perspective that most programming language book writers did in the early 1980s when the microcomputer was first coming out. They had to write for the layman, because only laymen were actually buying microcomputers. All the computer science snobs were still clinging dearly to their mainframes! So the tradition is there, and it's very sad that a lot of new writers prefer to maintain the snobby traditions than that of focusing on the layman. As an aside, Amazon has become almost a repository for reviews on my book, so if you have the time and an account over there, I'd really appreciate a portion of your review on there, but by no means do you have to :) Thanks again! And I will accept that praise! Haha, sorry, but many thanks for that. It’s really appreciated. I wrote the book from the same perspective that most programming language book writers did in the early 1980s when the microcomputer was first coming out. They had to write for the layman, because only laymen were actually buying microcomputers. All the computer science snobs were still clinging dearly to their mainframes! So the tradition is there, and it’s very sad that a lot of new writers prefer to maintain the snobby traditions than that of focusing on the layman.

As an aside, Amazon has become almost a repository for reviews on my book, so if you have the time and an account over there, I’d really appreciate a portion of your review on there, but by no means do you have to :)

Thanks again!

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