slow-paced intro to a wonderful "agile" language

May be good for total beginners, but very wordy and repetitive presentations of basic concepts. I really wanted to like this book, but it's poorly edited. Disappointed at Wiley, it has more of the slapped together feel of one of those doorstop publishers (without the bulk). If you've ever programmed in perl/python, java, C, you won't learn much from the first 100 pages. The sections starting with exceptions are worth reading, however, with useful code examples

Also, there are some bad typos, in regular expressions, they've confused $' and $`.

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