I learned HTML and then I learned programming. Have been a JAVA
programmer for a bunch of years and now I have been working on Rails
for more than six months. Never worked on C though.

I am having trouble understanding this thread.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/d69165ad2b711c2c#

But I want to understand what is being discussed. I guess I need a
computer science book which describes what exactly interpreting means.
Also the other day some guys were talking about ERB being interpreted
but liquid (shopify guys) not being interpreted. I couldn't follow
that too. Also I can't follow what is "Iron ruby". I mean what does it
mean to have ruby being ported to .NET .


Could you please refer me a book or two which explains these computer
science fundamentals. Also note that I don't have much background to
build up on so please refer books which are not too *geeky*.

Thanks