Use of first person in a book

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>
>> 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..
>
> (For those not in the know: if you have trouble parsing the above sentences,
> please note that "why" is actually used as a proper noun. It's the
> self-chosen nickname of a former Ruby big wig.)
>
> I think I need to give a read to that book, although I've heard it's rather
> controversial due to the gratuitous sexual references.

Sexual references? I don't know if it was ever finished - I only
managed to get hold of it after he disappeared, and it was only the
first.. 5 or 6 chapters - but I didn't encounter any sexual
references. At least I don't remember any. I was in no short supply of
incongruous whimsical humor though :)