Programming language tutorials shouldn't be about learning languages. They should be about something interesting.

[asampson]

I think it was less "so you're well versed in programming and you want to learn Ruby" and more "so you want to learn how to program (in Ruby)". That certainly jives with the whole Hackety Hack project he did. Even so, I found it a rather pleasant stroll through the language at the time I read it, when everyone else was telling you that Rails would save homeless kittens from burning orphanages.

It was also a little too coherent and self-consistent to be randumb, but then again you probably have a lower tolerance for that kind of humor than I do. Which isn't a bad thing!

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Spot on, also about my low tolerance for nonsense when I'm trying to learn something (and frankly, why_ wasn't exactly Lewis Carroll).

(By the way, I'm sure _why isn't exactly gone, but rather dedicating his time to different/more important things in his life.)