On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> 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.
Sexual references? I don't know if it was ever finished - I only managed to get hold of it after he disappeared, and it was only the first.. 5 or 6 chapters - but I didn't encounter any sexual references. At least I don't remember any. I was in no short supply of incongruous whimsical humor though :)
