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Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.1 windows installer
From: Mauricio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= <batsman.geo () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2004-01-14 15:41:19
Message-ID: 20040114154116.GB15389 () student ! ei ! uni-stuttgart ! de
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:38PM +0900, Alan Davies wrote:
> >Since the first edition of the Pickaxe book didn't exactly fly off the
> >shelves (that's my understanding anyway) you can imagine that AW would
>
> Maybe if you don't make the new version available online, then more
> people will buy it? I for one can hold my hand up in shame and say that
> I haven't bought the existing one, because the ruby installer comes with
> an electronic version of it.
OTOH...
I bought it *thanks* to the web version; had it not existed I'd probably
have ended up using Python :P I don't know if the the decision to
distribute the Pickaxe for free made sense economically (probably not),
but it certainly has done a lot for the expansion of Ruby, so we cannot
but thank the authors.
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