Ruby.Programming.Language.Oreilly

  本书的风格跟C语言的经典《The C Programming Language》相似，作者同样也是著名技术作家和语言缔造者的组合。本书与一般的Ruby语言图书相比，除了介绍如何使用Ruby语言外，还讲述了Ruby的实现原理及内部运作机制。堪称Ruby之经典之作(The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: • David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. • Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. • why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the R)