comp.lang.ruby

That book is terrible. It should be titled "Data Structures and
Algorithms with Object Oriented Design Patterns in C++ or Java That
Happen to Be Written in Ruby".

It doesn't use any Ruby or functional idioms. It looks like he paid a
minimum wage code monkey to translate the book into a lot of languages
(or used some automated means).

--Jeremy

On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Christopher Dicely wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:37 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:47:51AM +0900, James Gray wrote:
> > >
> > > A Ruby algorithms book would be really nice to have. (I have a Perl
> > > book like that I've used a fair bit.)
> >
> > I'd love to find a Ruby algorithms book, myself.
>
> Interestingly, I just ran into this online book, _Data Structures and Algorithms
> with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby_, at
> http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/
>
>



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