Acknowledgments
In January 2001, I bought myself a programming book as a birthday present. It had a pickaxe on the cover, and it was written by the two people who wrote The Pragmatic Programmer. It was about this new programming language from Japan that I had heard about on the Extreme Programming mailing list, and which sounded very interesting.
I can’t thank Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt enough. It’s hard to even begin to list what I’ve gained from purchasing that initial book and from my association with The Pragmatic Bookshelf. Thanks also to Chad Fowler for his work on subsequent versions of the book. I inherited a great book from the three of you, and I hope this version will continue to bring people into the Ruby language and the Ruby community. ...
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