A book is a massive undertaking, one that we would never be able to
complete without help from our all our friends, old and new. We're
proud to count among our old friends
the team at Addison-Wesley:
Mike Hendrickson, John Fuller,
the ever-helpful Julie Steele, and the wonderful
Julie DiNicola. Thank you all.
Our reviewers were fantastic. We put them up against some incredibly
tight deadlines and they came through for us. Reviewing a book full of
technical detail isn't easy, so we're especially grateful to
George Coe,
Bob Davison,
Jeff Deifik,
Hal Fulton,
Tadayoshi Funaba,
Clemens Hintze,
Kazuhiro Hiwada,
Kikutani Makoto,
Mike Linksvayer,
Aleksi Niemel�,
Lew Perin,
Jared Richardson,
Armin Roehrl,
Conrad Schneiker,
Patrick Schoenbach, and
Eric Vought.
Thanks also go to the two Julies at Addison-Wesley for coordinating
this truly international effort.
Several people helped us with specific areas of this book.
Tadayoshi Funaba exchanged countless e-mails with us until
we finally understood the
Date module. Guy Decoux and
Clemens Hintze patiently answered our questions about
writing Ruby extensions, and Masaki Suketa helped us
understand the
WinOLE module.
Although much of the original Ruby documentation is in Japanese, there
is a growing body of English translations, mostly undertaken by
Japanese developers whose skills with English never cease to amaze
us. Although there are too many individual contributions to this
effort to name each author, we would like to single out
Goto Kentaro, who has produced a large volume of
high-quality documentation and placed it online.
Finally, we have to thank Yukihiro ``Matz'' Matsumoto, the creator of
Ruby. We've lost count of the number of questions we've asked of him,
and the number of patient and detailed answers he's sent back. As well
as creating a truly wonderful language, Matz has fostered a
wonderfully supportive and open culture in which that language can
prosper.
Thank you all. Domo arigato gozaimasu.
Dave Thomas and
Andy Hunt
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