Yukihiro Matsumoto

The Ruby Programming language is a quite good introduction to ruby. The authors first give a very brief example of the language, but after this they approach the language in a systematic way -- it being a formal language this means from lexical and syntactical structures to data types, expressions and so on.

The authors are not trying to be chatty, witty or funny, they just tell you what you need to know. The book is not a specification, but it is somewhat a dry read, which is fine. There's Beckett for comedy.… (altro)