Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by codetrotter on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:21AM (#23510044)

Speaking of Ruby, there is this book that I read a few years ago (five years ago, in fact – time flies), that was using Ruby when explaining the things it was talking about.

Personally I don’t use Ruby and prefer Python instead, but the book was very enjoyable nonetheless so I would recommend that book to anyone, even to people like me who don’t really like Ruby in general and don’t really want to read or write Ruby in general.

Stuart, T., 2013. Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines To Impossible Programs. O’Reilly.

Book website: https://computationbook.com/

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by AdieuToLogic on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:01PM (#23512690)

Another good "non-rails" Ruby book is "Enterprise Integration with Ruby"[0]. Unfortunately, it's a bit dated (2006), so I am sure some of what Schmidt details is no longer supported/valid. Still, a cool book IMHO.

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Integration-Ruby-Maik-Schm...

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by joshhogg on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:00PM (#23510804)

This books looks super interesting. Did you find any of it applicable to particular problems you are working on or was it good general knowledge?

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by codetrotter on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:00PM (#23511764)

As good general knowledge yes

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