Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Jeremie Pelletier
<jerem...@gmail.com> wrote:
What the first person does to me is make it easier to make links with
authors since it makes it much easier to convey emotion, the third
person
just sounds like a robot making statements. I know there isn't much
room for
emotions in programming books as opposed to the general roman, but
there is
still a lot of passion to convey, programming IS an art after all!
I think why's Poignant Guide to Ruby seriously bucks THAT trend ;) Of
course why just up and deleted everything a month or two ago, so
getting your hands on it isn't quite as easy as it once was..
(For those not in the know: if you have trouble parsing the above
sentences, please note that "why" is actually used as a proper noun.
It's the self-chosen nickname of a former Ruby big wig.)
I think I need to give a read to that book, although I've heard it's
rather controversial due to the gratuitous sexual references.
Andrei
Controversy is sometimes good for its free publicity. Besides if people
get offended by what they read, its their own fault, not the author's.
