The Book Depository The Ruby Programming Language by Davd Flanagan
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Description: The Ruby Programming Language : Paperback : O' Reilly Media : 9780596516178 : 0596516177 : 19 Feb 2008 : A guide to Ruby that provides coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It explains the language from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The Book Depository The Ruby Programming Language by Davd Flanagan - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780596516178
MPN: 0596516177
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Author: Mike Stephens
Rating: 5
Review: Ruby is a fascinating language. One minute it is as light and simple as a bicycle; the next, it morphs into the Starship Enterprise. It also lets you do all sorts of things that not so long ago would get you arrested - introduce variables undeclared, assign any type to any other type, gayly declare methods with apparently no class, re-open classes etc. It's all part of Ruby's rich tapestry. However whilst all this might look simple, somewhere there has to be complexity. Every page reveals the detailed rules and a lot of them are not intuitive. You get to see how it all fits together - a creation, rather than a machine. You also get the designer's view on what is good, and what should best be left alone. So it's a pleasure to read and re-read but also invaluable for interpreting things in code you come across. It's essential for people new to Ruby (what are the scope rules for code brought in via require or mixins?). It's equally essential for seasoned programmers (what are the features that are commonly used by other experts versus those that are rarely needed?) You would have to be pretty clever to start writing Ruby applications just reading this book, but that's not what it's for. It's for answering all those little fundemental questions you're not quite sure about.
Author: Toshihiko Ichida
Rating: 1
Review: This book itself is excellent, but page formatting of code on Kindle is a mess. This does not happen on Kindle app on iPad. It's so ridiculous, Amazon!
