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Other than that metaprogramming ruby book liked in another comment... reading "eloquent ruby" was an absolute treat. it's teaching you all the idiomatic stuff f
by weaksauce 5y ago
Other than that metaprogramming ruby book liked in another comment... reading "eloquent ruby" was an absolute treat. it's teaching you all the idiomatic stuff from ruby and not a bunch of filler. easily one of the best ruby books ever written... hell maybe even one of the best programming books. It also dips into metaprogramming and all the other stuff ruby is known for.
- brigandish 5y ago> hell maybe even one of the best programming books My thoughts exactly. I loved it so much I emailed the author and - embarrassingly - told him he was the Mark Twain of programming books! He replied and was also very embarrassed by the comparison. Or maybe that was for his other book, Design Patterns in Ruby, I don't remember as I try hard to forget the details of embarrassing moments. I'm still waiting for a Lacuna-like company to arise and help me forget them all… Still, either book is well worth a read, both are top of my recommendations. If he (Russ Olsen) ever writes one about Haskell then perhaps it'll finally go mainstream :)
- weaksauce 5y agointerestingly enough it looks like he wrote a book on clojure so maybe that will get a lisp more traction.