Use of first person in a book

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote:

> What the first person does to me is make it easier to make links with
> authors since it makes it much easier to convey emotion, the third person
> just sounds like a robot making statements. I know there isn't much room for
> emotions in programming books as opposed to the general roman, but there is
> still a lot of passion to convey, programming IS an art after all!

I think why's Poignant Guide to Ruby seriously bucks THAT trend ;) Of
course why just up and deleted everything a month or two ago, so
getting your hands on it isn't quite as easy as it once was..