Acknowledgments
Where can I begin?
Where else but with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, creator of the breakthrough language you're about to get hooked on.
Warm thanks go to David Alan Black and Hal Fulton for their substantial contributions to this volume, and to Dave Thomas for his careful reading, insights, and just-tactful-enough suggestions. I'd also like to thank Neil Conway for some ideas that helped shape the Ruby/Gtk chapter.
I have Akinori Musha to thank for bringing my English retranslation of Matz's original Ruby tutorial into the mainstream, which seems to be what got me involved in the Ruby community in the first place, and Curt Clifton and Gary Leavens for their early encouragement and interest, which helped me decide to forge ahead with ...
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