Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly

On 9/23/06, Tom J. [email protected] wrote:

  1. Swine Life: The Autobiography of Chuck E. Bacon
  2. Ruby.on_java #=> JRuby

Hey now, we’ve got publishers begging to do a JRuby book :stuck_out_tongue:

Christian N. wrote:

“M. Edward (Ed) Borasky” [email protected] writes:

  1. Why Perl, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Pike, Lua, Forth, COBOL, APL,
    Lisp, PL/I and Even Macro Assembler are Way Better Than Ruby

…and that one was just rejected because O’Reilly doesn’t publish
books on Lisp. }}:slight_smile:

Well, if we really want to be off-topic, we could start a Common Lisp
vs. Scheme flamewar. :slight_smile:

Simen E. wrote:

How about “Writing a Book for O’Reilly (And Have It Rejected!) in a
Nutshell”?

Also, someone should write a for beginners book about writing books
for beginners. That would be funny just for the meta-ness of it.

I wrote a couple of O’Reilly books. I’m not going to write a book about
writing books, but I’d be glad to answer some questions (or introduce
prospective authors to my editors there).

Bill

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

vs. Scheme flamewar. :slight_smile:

Nah… Too easy :slight_smile:

On 9/23/06, Christian N. [email protected] wrote:

“Head-first Becoming an Unemployed Book Author”? :stuck_out_tongue:

How about “Writing a Book for O’Reilly (And Have It Rejected!) in a
Nutshell”?

Also, someone should write a for beginners book about writing books
for beginners. That would be funny just for the meta-ness of it.

  1. nil?

Awesome. I may well steal this! :wink:

How about…

self.responds_to? :love

Or any manner of self-inspection or meta-self-cognition method calls…

Any good ideas? :smiley:

M.T.

On 9/21/06, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

  • The Sound Of One Block Calling

Or: The Sound Of One Duck Quacking

also, Ruby: It’ll get ya laid.

On 9/23/06, William G. [email protected] wrote:

I wrote a couple of O’Reilly books. I’m not going to write a book about
writing books, but I’d be glad to answer some questions (or introduce
prospective authors to my editors there).

I’m not planning to write a book, but perhaps that’s what the original
poster was. I just thought the idea was amusing.

Matt T. wrote:

Or any manner of self-inspection or meta-self-cognition method calls…

Any good ideas? :smiley:

extend self

On 9/23/06, Matt T. [email protected] wrote:

Any good ideas? :smiley:

p

M.T.


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