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Honestly, I would not recommend this book to somebody who wanted to learn Ruby.

I wouldn't recommend this to somebody who had a serious project or task to solve.

However, I love that this added flavor to the Ruby community. For years afterwards people would hide Easter eggs like "chunky bacon" in their conference slides. It was a fun inside joke to share with fellow Rubyists.

I mean, Python has references to Monty Python skits in their stuff.

Sometimes it's just fun to be silly.



_why was not writing for an audience of people who wanted to learn a programming language to get a job to make money. There are certainly people who did get that out of The (Poignant) Guide, but it wasn't the primary goal. The primary goal, as I understood it, was to share a way to find joy in a particular way that humans can interact with computers.


I tried to learn Ruby by reading this, got nowhere. Much later when I had done a bit of writing code in Ruby I came back to this book and loved it.




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