Tirritate programmers of both camps by writing a book about Ruby and putting the Golang gophers on its cover:
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to alfonso adriasola last edited by
@aadriasola As a Ruby fangirl, I heartily welcome gophers' interest in learning a superior language. :blobcatinnocent:
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Woozle Hypertwinreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley "You're a Jedi, Harry", said Picard.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Woozle Hypertwin last edited by
@woozle Apparently, they replaced the teacher with a cute pink bunny wizard in the second edition, and the students just walked away altogether:
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Woozle Hypertwinreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley Every bit as epically mysterious as the language itself!
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Woozle Hypertwin last edited by
@woozle FWIW, while I can't speak of the narrative, the code that is available on GitHub doesn't look particularly clean. Might be one of those low-quality things that Packt churns out by the wagonload. :blobcatsad:
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@woozle Amazon says that the publisher (of the first edition) is something called "CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform".
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Woozle Hypertwinreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley Now wondering if possibly written by LLM....
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Woozle Hypertwin last edited by
@woozle The first edition is dated 2018, so it predates the public availability of LLMs. But the readers don't think highly of the book, it seems:
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Woozle Hypertwin last edited by
@woozle It's kind of sad when the best part of a book is that it's got a pretty pink cover with lovely creatures on it.
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Woozle Hypertwinreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by [email protected]
@riley Makes me wonder if I should write a book on PHP, because I could totally do that.
...but who buys a book to learn a programing language anymore?
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